turaire

Irish

Etymology

A combination of Irish tur ("dry, insipid, frugal") + -aire ("noun-forming suffix"). The root tur is from Proto-Indo-European *ters- ("dry").

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t̪ˠʊɾˠɪɾʲə/

Noun

turaire m (genitive singular turaire, nominative plural turairí)

  1. A person who eats food without any sauce, meat or condiments.
  2. Someone who lacks a sense of humour.
  3. Someone who is unbearably dry, stiff and lifeless.

Derived terms

Declension

Declension of tuairire (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative tuairire tuairirí
vocative a thuairire a thuairirí
genitive tuairire tuairirí
dative tuairire tuairirí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an tuairire na tuairirí
genitive an tuairire na dtuairirí
dative leis an tuairire
don tuairire 		leis na tuairirí

Mutation

Mutated forms of turaire
radical lenition eclipsis
turaire thuraire dturaire

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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