túailnge

Old Irish

Etymology

From túalaing +‎ -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuːa̯lʲŋʲe/

Noun

túailnge f

1. ability, capability
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 17^b5

     Ammi túailṅge ar mbréthre.

     We are potent in our word.

     (literally, “We are of the ability of our word.”)

Usage notes

Used only in the genitive, in the expression is túailnge (“is able, potent”, literally “is of the ability, capability”)

Declension

Feminine iā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	túailngeL	—	—
Vocative	túailngeL	—	—
Accusative	túailngiN	—	—
Genitive	túailnge	—	—
Dative	túailngiL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: tuailnge

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
túailnge	thúailnge	túailnge pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “túailnge”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language