tiarnúil

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From tiarna +‎ -úil.

Adjective

tiarnúil (genitive singular feminine tiarnúla, plural tiarnúla, comparative tiarnúla)

  1. lordly (haughty, insolent), imperious
  2. masterful (authoritative), domineering, overbearing
    Synonyms: máistriúil, tiarnasach
  3. imperative (authoritatively or absolutely directive)

Declension

Declension of tiarnúil
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative tiarnúil thiarnúil tiarnúla;
thiarnúla2
vocative thiarnúil tiarnúla
genitive tiarnúla tiarnúla tiarnúil
dative tiarnúil;
thiarnúil1 		thiarnúil tiarnúla;
thiarnúla2
Comparative níos tiarnúla
Superlative is tiarnúla

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of tiarnúil
radical lenition eclipsis
tiarnúil thiarnúil dtiarnúil

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

References

  1. ^ “tiarnúil”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy

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