teachtaire

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish techtaire (“messenger, courier, envoy”).[1] By surface analysis, teacht +‎ -aire.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtʲaxt̪ˠəɾʲə/[2]

Noun

teachtaire m (genitive singular teachtaire, nominative plural teachtairí)

  1. messenger

Declension

Declension of teachtaire (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative teachtaire teachtairí
vocative a theachtaire a theachtairí
genitive teachtaire teachtairí
dative teachtaire teachtairí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an teachtaire na teachtairí
genitive an teachtaire na dteachtairí
dative leis an teachtaire
don teachtaire 		leis na teachtairí

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of teachtaire
radical lenition eclipsis
teachtaire theachtaire dteachtaire

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “techtaire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 194

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