tiarnas

Irish

Alternative forms

• tighearnas, tighearnus (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle Irish tigernas. By surface analysis, tiarna +‎ -as.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʲiəɾˠn̪ˠəsˠ/

Noun

tiarnas m (genitive singular tiarnais, nominative plural tiarnais)

1. lordship (territory ruled by a lord), dominion (kingdom, nation, or other sphere of influence), domain
2. lordship, dominion (power, authority, sovereignty), domination (exercise of power in ruling), dominance, sway, rule
3. (Christianity) dominion, domination (order of angel)
4. Dominion (self-governing nation of the British Commonwealth)
5. peerage (rank or title of a peer)

Declension

Declension of tiarnas (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative tiarnas tiarnais vocative a thiarnais a thiarnasa genitive tiarnais tiarnas dative tiarnas tiarnais forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an tiarnas na tiarnais genitive an tiarnais na dtiarnas dative leis an tiarnas don tiarnas leis na tiarnais

Derived terms

• aintiarnas (“tyranny”)
• an Tiarnas (“Lordship, County Louth”)
• ardtiarnas (“overlordship”)
• Tiarnas Cheanada (“Dominion of Canada”)
• Tiarnas na hÉireann (“Lordship of Ireland”)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of tiarnas

radical	lenition	eclipsis
tiarnas	thiarnas	dtiarnas

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

Further reading

• “tiarnas”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tigernas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “tiġearnas”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 733
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tiarnas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN