túailnge

Old Irish

Etymology

From túalaing + -e.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtuːa̯lʲŋʲe/

Noun

túailnge f

  1. ability, capability
    • 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. 17b5
      Ammi túailṅge ar mbréthre.
      We are potent in our word.
      (literally, “We are of the ability of our word.”)

Usage notes

Used only in the genitive, in the expression is túailnge (is able, potent, literally is of the ability, capability)

Declension

Feminine iā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative túailngeL
Vocative túailngeL
Accusative túailngiN
Genitive túailnge
Dative túailngiL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Irish: tuailnge

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
túailnge thúailnge túailnge
pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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