tonnaosta

Irish

Etymology

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Adjective

tonnaosta

1. getting on in years

Related terms

• anaosta (“youthful”, adjective)
• aosta (“aged, old”, adjective)
• breacaosta (“fairly old”, adjective)
• bunaosta (“fairly old; middle-aged”, adjective)
• cianaosta (“long-lived, very old; pristine, primeval”, adjective)
• cnagaosta (“advanced in years, elderly”, adjective)
• comhaosta (“of the same age; contemporary, coeval”, adjective)
• críonaosta (“old and withered”, adjective)
• foraosta (“very old”, adjective)
• lánaosta (“of full age; rather old”, adjective)
• meánaosta (“middle-aged”, adjective)
• scothaosta (“fairly old, elderly”, adjective)
• tromaosta (“of advanced age”, adjective)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of tonnaosta

radical	lenition	eclipsis
tonnaosta	thonnaosta	dtonnaosta

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

References

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