turchair
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Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]turchair (past thurchair, future turchairidh, verbal noun turchairt)
- happen, chance
- Thurchair dhaibh a thighinn dhachaigh aig an aon àm. ― They happened to come home at the same time.
- a thurchair a bhith a' dol seachad ― who happened/chanced to be passing by.
- nan turchradh dhuinn a bhith ― if we happen to be
- Thurchair mi air. ― I chanced on it / I met him by chance.
Synonyms
[edit]References
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “turchur”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language