Irish
- iontáil, iontó, iontódh, iontú, tiontó, tiontódh
- ionntáil, ionntó, ionntódh, ionntughadh, iontughadh, tionntó, tionntódh, tionntú, tionntughadh, tiontughadh (superseded)[1]
Etymology
From Middle Irish tintugad,[2] intúd[3] and Old Irish tintúd,[4] verbal noun of do·intaí (“to return, translate”). By surface analysis, tiontaigh + -ú.
Pronunciation
- (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈtʲɨ̞n̪ˠt̪ˠa/[5] (corresponding to the form tiontó)
Noun
tiontú m (genitive singular tiontaithe, nominative plural tiontuithe)
- verbal noun of tiontaigh
- turn (change of direction or orientation)
- conversion (act of converting; also religious)
- translation
Declension
Declension of tiontú (irregular)
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Synonyms
Derived terms
- tiontú sreibhe (“reversal of the mammary flow, leading to milk fever”)
- tiontú goile (“vomiting”)
Mutation
Mutated forms of tiontú
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lenition
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eclipsis
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thiontú
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dtiontú
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- ^ “tiontú”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tintugad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “intód, intúd”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language,
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tintúd”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 388, page 129
Further reading
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “tionntóḋ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 1212; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tiontú”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
