tortóg

Irish

Alternative forms
  • turtóg, túrtóg

Etymology

From Middle Irish tort (“loaf, cake”) (from Latin torta) + -óg.

Pronunciation
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈtuːrtɔɡ/[1] (corresponding to the form túrtóg)

Noun

tortóg f (genitive singular tortóige, nominative plural tortóga)

  1. hummock
  2. tussock
    Synonym: tom

Declension
Declension of tortóg

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tortóg tortóga
Vocative a thortóg a thortóga
Genitive tortóige tortóg
Dative tortóg
tortóig (archaic, dialectal)		 tortóga

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an tortóg na tortóga
Genitive na tortóige na dtortóg
Dative leis an tortóg
leis an tortóig (archaic, dialectal)

don tortóg
don tortóig (archaic, dialectal)

 leis na tortóga

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tortóg thortóg dtortóg
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 20

Further reading
  • “tortóg”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “turtóg”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 767
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tortóg”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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