tacsaí

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English taxi.

Noun

tacsaí m (genitive singular tacsaí, nominative plural tacsaithe)

1. taxi

Declension

Declension of tacsaí (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative tacsaí tacsaithe vocative a thacsaí a thacsaithe genitive tacsaí tacsaithe dative tacsaí tacsaithe forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an tacsaí na tacsaithe genitive an tacsaí na dtacsaithe dative leis an tacsaí don tacsaí leis na tacsaithe

Derived terms

• fear tacsaí, tiománaí tacsaí (“taxi driver”)
• méadar tacsaí, tacsaiméadar (“taximeter”)
• tacsaí-bhus (“taxibus”)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of tacsaí

radical	lenition	eclipsis
tacsaí	thacsaí	dtacsaí

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tacsaí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “tacsaí”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “tacsaí”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024