tiarna

See also: Tiarna

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish tigerna, from Old Irish tigernae.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtʲiəɾˠn̪ˠə/[2][3]

Noun

tiarna m (genitive singular tiarna, nominative plural tiarnaí)

  1. lord
  2. peer

Declension

Declension of tiarna (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative tiarna tiarnaí
vocative a thiarna a thiarnaí
genitive tiarna tiarnaí
dative tiarna tiarnaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an tiarna na tiarnaí
genitive an tiarna na dtiarnaí
dative leis an tiarna
don tiarna 		leis na tiarnaí

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of tiarna
radical lenition eclipsis
tiarna thiarna dtiarna

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), “tigerna”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 203, page 102
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 342, page 117

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