tosaigh

Irish

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈt̪ˠɞsˠɪɟ/[1]
  • (Galway) IPA(key): /ˈt̪ˠɔsˠə/
  • (Mayo) IPA(key): /ˈt̪ˠɔsˠiː/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈt̪ˠʌsˠi/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish tosaigid (begins, verb), from tosach (beginning).[2]

Alternative forms

Verb

tosaigh (present analytic tosaíonn, future analytic tosóidh, verbal noun tosú, past participle tosaithe) (transitive, intransitive)

  1. begin, commence
  2. start, initiate
Conjugation

Noun

tosaigh m

  1. inflection of tosach:
    1. vocative/genitive singular
    2. nominative/dative plural

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tosaigh thosaigh dtosaigh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 180, page 91
  2. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “tosaigid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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