tairne
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish tairnge,[2] from Proto-Celtic *tarankyos (“nail”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to drill, rub”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tairne m (genitive singular tairne, nominative plural tairní)
- nail (spike-shaped metal fastener)
Declension
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Derived terms
[edit]Mutation
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tairne | thairne | dtairne |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “tairnge”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 710
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tairnge”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 92
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tairne”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “tairne”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “tairne”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024