tuirse

See also: tùirse

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish tuirse, from Old Irish toirse f (“sorrow, pain; act of sorrowing, complaining; weariness, fatigue”), originally toros.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt̪ˠʊɾˠʃə/

Noun

tuirse f (genitive singular tuirse)

  1. tiredness, weariness, fatigue
    Imíonn an tuirse ach fanann an tairbhe. ― The fatigue leaves but the profit remains.
  2. (act of) sorrowing; (weight of) sorrow

Declension

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

Derived terms

  • atuirse (“weariness”)
  • leamhthuirse (“boredom”)
  • tuirse inchinne (“brain fog”)
  • tuirse shúl (“eye-strain”)
  • tuirseach (“tired”)
  • tuirsigh (“to tire”)
  • tuirsiúil (“tiring”)
  • tuirsiúlacht f (“tiresomeness, wearisomeness”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of tuirse
radical lenition eclipsis
tuirse thuirse dtuirse

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

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