teaspach

Irish

Alternative forms

  • teasbhach
  • teasbach (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle Irish tesbach, from Old Irish tess (“heat”).

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /tʲɪˈsˠpˠɑx/[1]
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈtʲasˠwa(x)/[2] (corresponding to the form teasbhach)

Noun

teaspach m (genitive singular teaspaigh)

  1. heat, warmth, sultriness, hot weather
  2. exuberance, animal spirits, spirit, ardour, wantonness
    Synonyms: anamúlacht, spleodar
  3. fury (especially of warriors in battle)

Declension

Declension of teaspach (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative teaspach
vocative a theaspaigh
genitive teaspaigh
dative teaspach
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an teaspach
genitive an teaspaigh
dative leis an teaspach
don teaspach

Derived terms

  • bain an teaspaigh de (“to cool s.o.'s ardour, to having a sobering effect on”)
  • dreoilín teasbhaigh (“grasshopper”)
  • slaghdán teaspaigh (“hay fever”)
  • tonn teaspaigh (“heatwave”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of teaspach
radical lenition eclipsis
teaspach theaspach dteaspach

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

References

  1. ^ Ó Cuív, Brian (1968) The Irish of West Muskerry, Co. Cork: A Phonetic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, page 105; reprinted 1988
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 197, page 75

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