tigernas

Middle Irish

Etymology

From tigerna (“lord”) +‎ -as.

Noun

tigernas m

1. lordship

Synonyms

• donn
• flaith

Descendants

• Irish: tiarnas
• Scottish Gaelic: tighearnas

Mutation

Mutation of tigernas

radical	lenition	nasalization
tigernas	thigernas	tigernas pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard 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), “tigernas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language