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tiarnúil

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From tiarna +‎ -úil.

Adjective

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tiarnúil (genitive singular feminine tiarnúla, plural tiarnúla, comparative tiarnúla)

  1. lordly (haughty, insolent), imperious
  2. masterful (authoritative), domineering, overbearing
    Synonyms: máistriúil, tiarnasach
  3. imperative (authoritatively or absolutely directive)

Declension

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Declension of tiarnúil
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative tiarnúil thiarnúil tiarnúla;
thiarnúla2
vocative thiarnúil tiarnúla
genitive tiarnúla tiarnúla tiarnúil
dative tiarnúil;
thiarnúil1 		thiarnúil tiarnúla;
thiarnúla2
Comparative níos tiarnúla
Superlative is tiarnúla

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of tiarnúil
radical lenition eclipsis
tiarnúil thiarnúil dtiarnúil

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

References

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  1. ^ “tiarnúil”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy

Further reading

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