tuilleamh

Irish

Alternative forms

• tuilleachtaint, tuilliúint, tuillmheadh

Etymology

From tuill +‎ -amh.

Noun

tuilleamh m (genitive singular as substantive tuillimh, genitive as verbal noun tuilleata)

1. verbal noun of tuill
2. earning
3. desert, merit
4. earnings, wages

Declension

As substantive

Declension of tuilleamh (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative tuilleamh vocative a thuillimh genitive tuillimh dative tuilleamh forms with the definite article case singular nominative an tuilleamh genitive an tuillimh dative leis an tuilleamh don tuilleamh

As verbal noun

Declension of tuilleamh (irregular, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative tuilleamh vocative a thuilleamh genitive tuilleata dative tuilleamh forms with the definite article case singular nominative an tuilleamh genitive an tuilleata dative leis an tuilleamh don tuilleamh

Derived terms

• fear tuillimh (“wage-earner”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of tuilleamh

radical	lenition	eclipsis
tuilleamh	thuilleamh	dtuilleamh

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) “tuilleamh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN