tairseach

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish tairsech (“threshold”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

tairseach f (genitive singular tairsí, nominative plural tairseacha)

  1. threshold (myriad senses); sill
  2. (Internet) portal

Declension
Declension of tairseach

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tairseach tairseacha
Vocative a thairseach a thairseacha
Genitive tairsí tairseach
Dative tairseach
tairsigh (archaic, dialectal)		 tairseacha

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an tairseach na tairseacha
Genitive na tairsí na dtairseach
Dative leis an tairseach
leis an tairsigh (archaic, dialectal)

don tairseach
don tairsigh (archaic, dialectal)

 leis na tairseacha

Derived terms

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

References
  1. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “tairsech ?”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 98

Further reading
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