turscar

Irish

Alternative forms
  • trioscar, troscar, truscar
  • triosgar, trosgar, trusgar, tursgar (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

From Old Irish turscar,[2] a derivative of do·scara (“to knock down, drop”) (see treascair).[3]

Pronunciation

Noun

turscar m (genitive singular turscair)

  1. seawrack (masses of seaweed on the shore)
  2. detritus, refuse (items or material that have been discarded)
  3. (computing) spam (unsolicited bulk electronic messages)
  4. (literary) trappings, belongings

Declension
Declension of turscar

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative turscar
Vocative a thurscair
Genitive turscair
Dative turscar

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an turscar
Genitive an turscair
Dative leis an turscar

don turscar

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

References
  1. “turscar”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “turscur, tascar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 614
  4. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 95

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