tnúth

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish tnúth.[1] MacBain's Etymological Ditionary of Irish and Scots Gaelic gives "from the root ten, stretch: "grasping".

Pronunciation

Noun

tnúth m (genitive singular tnútha)

  1. envy
  2. longing, desire, hopeful expectation
    • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 193:
      Ní raibh aon fhear óg uasal timpall ná go raibh ag tnúth le Máire Bhán a dh’fhagháil le pósadh, ach ni raibh aon mhaith d’aoinne bheith á lorg.
      There was no young gentleman around who wasn’t longing to get Máire Bhán in marriage, but it was no use to anyone to ask her.
  3. verbal noun of tnúth

Declension

Declension of tnúth (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative tnúth
vocative a thnúth
genitive tnútha
dative tnúth
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an tnúth
genitive an tnútha
dative leis an tnúth
don tnúth

Derived terms

  • tnúthach

Verb

tnúth (present analytic tnúthann, future analytic tnúthfaidh, verbal noun tnúth, past participle tnúite)

  1. to envy
  2. to long for, desire, expect hopefully

Conjugation

Mutation

Mutated forms of tnúth
radical lenition eclipsis
tnúth thnúth dtnúth

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), “tnúth, tnúd”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading