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

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

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”)
  • tuirsiúlacht f (“tiresomeness, wearisomeness”)

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

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