toircheas

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish toirrches.

Pronunciation

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈt̪ˠɔːɾˠhisˠ/

Noun

toircheas m (genitive singular toirchis, nominative plural toirchis)

1. pregnancy

Declension

Declension of toircheas (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative toircheas toirchis vocative a thoirchis a thoircheasa genitive toirchis toircheas dative toircheas toirchis forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an toircheas na toirchis genitive an toirchis na dtoircheas dative leis an toircheas don toircheas leis na toirchis

Mutation

Mutated forms of toircheas

radical	lenition	eclipsis
toircheas	thoircheas	dtoircheas

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

Further reading

• “toircheas”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “toirrches”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “toirċeas”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 741
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “toircheas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN