turscar

Irish

Alternative forms

  • trioscar, troscar, truscar
  • triosgar, trosgar, trusgar, tursgar (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

From Old Irish turscar,[2] a derivative of do·scara (“to knock down, drop”) (see treascair).

Pronunciation

Noun

turscar m (genitive singular turscair)

  1. seawrack (masses of seaweed on the shore)
  2. detritus, refuse (items or material that have been discarded)
  3. (computing) spam (unsolicited bulk electronic messages)
  4. (literary) trappings, belongings

Declension

Declension of turscar (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative turscar
vocative a thurscair
genitive turscair
dative turscar
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an turscar
genitive an turscair
dative leis an turscar
don turscar

Mutation

Mutated forms of turscar
radical lenition eclipsis
turscar thurscar dturscar

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

References

  1. ^ “turscar”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “turscur, tascar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 268, page 95

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