tírim
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Celtic *tīresmis, related to *tīros (“land”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]tírim
- dry
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 15b15
- .i. ho tírmai .i. conabí tírim
- i.e. from drought, i.e. so that it is not parched.
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 15b15
Inflection
[edit]| i-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | tírim | tírim | tírim |
| Vocative | tírim | ||
| Accusative | tírim | tírim | |
| Genitive | tírim | tírmae | tírim |
| Dative | tírim | tírim | tírim |
| Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
| Nominative | tírmai | tírmai | |
| Vocative | tírmai | ||
| Accusative | tírmai | ||
| Genitive | tírim* tírmae | ||
| Dative | tírmaib | ||
| Notes | *not when substantivized | ||
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| tírim | thírim | tírim pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*tīros-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 379-380
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tírim”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language