tigerna

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish tigernae.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʲiɣʲər͈n͈ə/

Noun

tigerna m

1. lord

Descendants

• Irish: tiarna
• Manx: çhiarn
• Scottish Gaelic: tighearna

Mutation

Mutation of tigerna

radical	lenition	nasalization
tigerna	thigerna	tigerna pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tigerna”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language