tùirse

See also: tuirse

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish tuirse, from Old Irish toirse f (“sorrow, pain; act of sorrowing, complaining; weariness, fatigue”), originally toros.

Noun

tùirse f

  1. affliction, dejection, grief, melancholy, mourning, sadness, sorrow

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
tùirsethùirse
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “tùirse”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “toirse”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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