tiargáil

Irish

Alternative forms

• tíorgáil

Etymology

Alteration, with semantic differentiation, of tiaráil (“travail, drudgery”), from tiaradh (“making an effort to find”), from t(h)iar (“back, behindhand”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /tʲiː(ə)ɾˠˈɡɑːlʲtʲ/ (as if spelled tíorgáilt)

Noun

tiargáil f (genitive singular tiargála)

1. (rare) preparing (acting as a verbal noun for a verb with no finite forms) [with chun ‘to’]

   ag tiargáil chun iascaigh ― preparing to go fishing

Declension

Declension of tiargáil (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative tiargáil vocative a thiargáil genitive tiargála dative tiargáil forms with the definite article case singular nominative an tiargáil genitive na tiargála dative leis an tiargáil don tiargáil

Synonyms

• réiteach, ullmhú

Mutation

Mutated forms of tiargáil

radical	lenition	eclipsis
tiargáil	thiargáil	dtiargáil

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

Further reading

• “tiargáil”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “tiargáil”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tiargáil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN