tuirse

See also: tùirse

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish tuirse, from Old Irish toirse f (“sorrow, pain; act of sorrowing, complaining; weariness, fatigue”), originally toros.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt̪ˠʊɾˠʃə/

Noun

tuirse f (genitive singular tuirse)

1. tiredness, weariness, fatigue

   Imíonn an tuirse ach fanann an tairbhe. ― The fatigue leaves but the profit remains.

2. (act of) sorrowing; (weight of) sorrow

Declension

Declension of tuirse (fourth declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative tuirse vocative a thuirse genitive tuirse dative tuirse forms with the definite article case singular nominative an tuirse genitive na tuirse dative leis an tuirse don tuirse

Derived terms

• atuirse (“weariness”)
• leamhthuirse (“boredom”)
• tuirse inchinne (“brain fog”)
• tuirse shúl (“eye-strain”)
• tuirseach (“tired”)
• tuirsigh (“to tire”)
• tuirsiúil (“tiring”)

 

Related terms

• tuirsiúlacht f (“tiresomeness, wearisomeness”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of tuirse

radical	lenition	eclipsis
tuirse	thuirse	dtuirse

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) “tuirse”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “toirse”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “tuirse”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “tuirse”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024