tobac

See also: Tobac

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from French tabac, from Spanish tabaco.

Pronunciation

Noun

tobac m (genitive singular tobac or tobaic or tobaca)

  1. tobacco

Declension

Declension of tobac (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative tobac
vocative a thobac
genitive tobac
dative tobac
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an tobac
genitive an tobac
dative leis an tobac
don tobac

Nonstandard declensions:

Declension of tobac (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative tobac
vocative a thobaic
genitive tobaic
dative tobac
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an tobac
genitive an tobaic
dative leis an tobac
don tobac
Declension of tobac (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative tobac
vocative a thobac
genitive tobaca
dative tobac
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an tobac
genitive an tobaca
dative leis an tobac
don tobac

Derived terms

  • carráiste tobac (“smoking-carriage, smoking-compartment”)
  • cnámhóg thobac (“dottle”)
  • gríodán tobac (“dottle”)
  • sú tobac (“tobacco water”)
  • súlachas tobac (“tobacco juice”)
  • tobac coganta (“chewing tobacco”)
  • tobacadóir (“tobacconist”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of tobac
radical lenition eclipsis
tobac thobac dtobac

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

References

References
  1. ^ “tobac”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Ó Máille, T. S. (1974) Liosta Focal as Ros Muc [Word List from Rosmuck] (in Irish), Baile Átha Cliath [Dublin]: Irish University Press, →ISBN, page 232
  3. ^ Stockman, Gerard (1974) The Irish of Achill, Co. Mayo (Studies in Irish Language and Literature, Department of Celtic, Q.U.B.; vol. 2), Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen’s University of Belfast, section 789, page 82
  4. ^ de Búrca, Seán (1958) The Irish of Tourmakeady, Co. Mayo: A Phonemic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 325 (i), page 63
  5. ^ de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1975) The Irish of Cois Fhairrge, Co. Galway: A Phonetic Study, revised edition, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, § 248, page 47
  6. ^ Stockman, Gerard (1974) The Irish of Achill, Co. Mayo (Studies in Irish Language and Literature, Department of Celtic, Q.U.B.; vol. 2), Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen’s University of Belfast, section 1082, page 175
  7. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 434, page 140

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