tír
See also: Appendix:Variations of "tir"
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish tír, from Proto-Celtic *tīros, from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”), i.e. “dry land” as opposed to lake or sea. Cognates include English thirst, Latin terra.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʲiːɾʲ/
Noun
Derived terms
- alltathír f (“wild, rough, country”)
- i dtír (“ashore”)
- míntír f (“mainland”)
- mórthír f (“mainland”)
- tír chluiche f (“sporting country; hunting-ground”)
- Tír Eoghain (“Tyrone”)
- tír mór f (“mainland”)
- Tír na nÓg
- tírdhreach (“landscape”)
- tírghrá (“patriotism”)
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| tír | thír | dtír |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “tír”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 737
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tír”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 tír”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Entries containing “tír” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “tír” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 46
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *tīros, from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”), i.e. ‘dry land’ as opposed to lake or sea. Cognates include English thirst, Latin terra.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (nominative/vocative/accusative singular and dual) /tʲiːr/, (dative singular) /tʲiːrʲ/
Declension
| Neuter s-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | tírN | tírN | tíreL |
| Vocative | tírN | tírN | tíreL |
| Accusative | tírN | tírN | tíreL |
| Genitive | tíreL | tíre | tíreN |
| Dative | tírL | tírib | tírib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| tír | thír | tír pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/ |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 tír”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Old Norse
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