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Tuirc

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See also: tuirc

Irish

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Etymology

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From Medieval Latin Turcia, from Turcus (Turk), from Byzantine Greek Τοῦρκος (Toûrkos).

Proper noun

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An Tuirc f (genitive na Tuirce)

  1. Turkey (a country located in eastern Thrace in southeastern Europe and Anatolia in southwestern Asia)

Declension

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Declension of Tuirc (second declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative Tuirc
vocative a Thuirc
genitive Tuirce
dative Tuirc
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an Tuirc
genitive na Tuirce
dative leis an Tuirc
don Tuirc

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of Tuirc
radical lenition eclipsis
Tuirc Thuirc dTuirc

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

Further reading

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