toirsech
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]toirsech
- mournful, sorrowful
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 29d19
- Ná ba thoirsech cía béo-sa hi carcair.
- Do not be mournful even though I am in prison.
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 29d19
Declension
[edit]| o/ā-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | toirsech | toirsech | toirsech |
| Vocative | toirsig* toirsech** | ||
| Accusative | toirsech | toirsig | |
| Genitive | toirsig | toirsige | toirsig |
| Dative | toirsech | toirsig | toirsech |
| Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
| Nominative | toirsig | toirsecha | |
| Vocative | toirsechu toirsecha† | ||
| Accusative | toirsechu toirsecha† | ||
| Genitive | toirsech | ||
| Dative | toirsechaib | ||
| Notes | *modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative **modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative | ||
Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| toirsech | thoirsech | toirsech pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “toirsech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language