tirim
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]tirim (plural tirime or tiorma, comparative tirime or tiorma)
Declension
[edit]Regular declension:
| singular | plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| nominative | tirim | thirim | tirime; thirime2 | |
| vocative | thirim | tirime | ||
| genitive | tirime | tirime | tirim | |
| dative | tirim; thirim1 |
thirim | tirime; thirime2 | |
| Comparative | níos tirime | |||
| Superlative | is tirime | |||
1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Irregular declension:
| singular | plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| nominative | tirim | thirim | tiorma; thiorma2 | |
| vocative | thirim | tiorma | ||
| genitive | tirime | tiorma | tirim | |
| dative | tirim; thirim1 |
thirim | tiorma; thiorma2 | |
| Comparative | níos tiorma | |||
| Superlative | is tiorma | |||
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
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | eclipsis |
|---|---|---|
| tirim | thirim | dtirim |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tirim”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tírim, tirim”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “tirim”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “tirim”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024