tuirseach
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish toirsech (“mournful, sorrowful”), from Old Irish toirsech.[1] By surface analysis, tuirse + -ach. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic tùirseach (“mournful, sorrowful”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Munster) IPA(key): /t̪ˠəɾˠˈʃax/
- (Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈt̪ˠɔɾˠʃəx/
- (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈt̪ˠɨ̞ɾˠsˠa(x)/[2]
Adjective
[edit]tuirseach (genitive singular masculine tuirsigh, genitive singular feminine tuirsí, plural tuirseacha, comparative tuirsí)
- tired
- Tá mé tuirseach den chaint.
- I’m tired of the talk
- “An Mhaighean Mhara” (traditional Irish folksong):
- Tá mise tuirseach agus beidh go lá
Mo Mháire bhroinngheal ’s mo Phádraig bán
Ar bharr na dtonna ’s fá bhéal na trá
Siúd chugaibh Mary Chinidh ’s í ’ndiaidh an Éirne ’shnámh- I’m tired and will be until day
My fair-breasted Máire and my blond Pádraig
On top of the waves and under the beach
There for you [is] Mary Chinidh having swum in the Erne
- I’m tired and will be until day
Declension
[edit]Declension of tuirseach
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | tuirseach | thuirseach | tuirseacha; thuirseacha² | |
Vocative | thuirsigh | tuirseacha | ||
Genitive | tuirsí | tuirseacha | tuirseach | |
Dative | tuirseach; thuirseach¹ |
thuirseach; thuirsigh (archaic) |
tuirseacha; thuirseacha² | |
Comparative | níos tuirsí | |||
Superlative | is tuirsí |
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Derived terms
[edit]- tuirseach traochta (“worn out, exhausted”)
Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
tuirseach | thuirseach | dtuirseach |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
[edit]- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “toirsech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 40
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tuirseach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN