tighearnas

Irish

Noun

tighearnas m (genitive singular tighearnais, nominative plural tighearnais)

1. Superseded spelling of tiarnas.

Declension

Declension of tighearnas (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative tighearnas tighearnais vocative a thighearnais a thighearnasa genitive tighearnais tighearnas dative tighearnas tighearnais forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an tighearnas na tighearnais genitive an tighearnais na dtighearnas dative leis an tighearnas don tighearnas leis na tighearnais

Mutation

Mutated forms of tighearnas

radical	lenition	eclipsis
tighearnas	thighearnas	dtighearnas

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tighearna”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish tigernas, from tigerna. By surface analysis, tighearna +‎ -as.

Noun

tighearnas m (genitive singular tighearnais)

1. lordship, domain, estate
2. proprietorship, peerage

Mutation

Mutation of tighearnas

radical	lenition
tighearnas	thighearnas

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
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