toircheas

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish toirrches.

Pronunciation

Noun

toircheas m (genitive singular toirchis, nominative plural toirchis)

  1. pregnancy

Declension

Declension of toircheas (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative toircheas toirchis
vocative a thoirchis a thoircheasa
genitive toirchis toircheas
dative toircheas toirchis
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an toircheas na toirchis
genitive an toirchis na dtoircheas
dative leis an toircheas
don toircheas
leis na toirchis

Mutation

Mutated forms of toircheas
radical lenition eclipsis
toircheas thoircheas dtoircheas

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

References

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 16

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