tnáith

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Originally an alternative form of tráigh (to ebb) with semantic differentiation, as Old Irish tráigid also meant to exhaust.

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /t̪ˠn̪ˠɑːh/[2]
  • (Connacht) IPA(key): /t̪ˠnˠɑː/, /t̪ˠɾˠɑː/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /t̪ˠɾˠaː/

Verb

tnáith (present analytic tnáitheann, future analytic tnáithfidh, verbal noun tnáitheadh, past participle tnáite)

  1. (transitive) to fatigue, exhaust
    Synonyms: tuirsigh, sáraigh, traoch

Conjugation

Mutation

Mutated forms of tnáith
radical lenition eclipsis
tnáith thnáith dtnáith

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

References

  1. ^ tnáith”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  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, § 215, page 111

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