tairngire

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish tairngire.

Noun

tairngire f (genitive singular tairngire)

  1. Alternative form of tairngreacht

Declension

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tairngire thairngire dtairngire
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From to- + ar- + in- + -gaire.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtarʲŋʲɡʲirʲe]

Noun

tairngire n (genitive tairngiri, nominative plural tairngire)

  1. verbal noun of do·airngir: promise
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 109d5
      Ní taít Día fo tairṅgere conid·chumscaiged.
      God does not come under a promise that he should alter it.

Declension

Neuter io-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative tairngireN tairngireL tairngireL
Vocative tairngireN tairngireL tairngireL
Accusative tairngireN tairngireL tairngireL
Genitive tairngiriL tairngireL tairngireN
Dative tairngiriuL tairngirib tairngirib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Irish: tairngire

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
tairngire thairngire tairngire
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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