tuirseach
Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish toirsech (“mournful, sorrowful”), from Old Irish toirsech.[1] By surface analysis, tuirse + -ach. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic tùirseach (“mournful, sorrowful”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
tuirseach (genitive singular masculine tuirsigh, genitive singular feminine tuirsí, plural tuirseacha, comparative tuirsí)
- tired
- Tá mé tuirseach den chaint.
- I’m tired of the talk
- “An Mhaighean Mhara” (traditional Irish folksong):
- Tá mise tuirseach agus beidh go lá
Mo Mháire bhroinngheal ’s mo Phádraig bán
Ar bharr na dtonna ’s fá bhéal na trá
Siúd chugaibh Mary Chinidh ’s í ’ndiaidh an Éirne ’shnámh- I’m tired and will be until day
My fair-breasted Máire and my blond Pádraig
On top of the waves and under the beach
There for you [is] Mary Chinidh having swum in the Erne
- I’m tired and will be until day
Declension
Declension of tuirseach
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | tuirseach | thuirseach | tuirseacha; thuirseacha² | |
| Vocative | thuirsigh | tuirseacha | ||
| Genitive | tuirsí | tuirseacha | tuirseach | |
| Dative | tuirseach; thuirseach¹ |
thuirseach; thuirsigh (archaic) |
tuirseacha; thuirseacha² | |
| Comparative | níos tuirsí | |||
| Superlative | is tuirsí | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Derived terms
- tuirseach traochta (“worn out, exhausted”)
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| tuirseach | thuirseach | dtuirseach |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “toirsech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 40
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tuirseach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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