Irish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Old Irish taidbsiu,[2] verbal noun of do·adbat.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

taibhse f (genitive singular taibhse, nominative plural taibhsí)

  1. ghost
  2. appearance

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

Mutation edit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
taibhse thaibhse dtaibhse
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References edit

  1. ^ taibhse”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “taidbsiu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 195, page 98

Further reading edit

Scottish Gaelic edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Old Irish taidbsiu, verbal noun of do·adbat.

Noun edit

taibhse m or f (genitive singular taibhse, plural taibhsean)

  1. apparition, spirit, spectre, phantom, ghost
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

From Norn tåisti.

Noun edit

taibhse f (genitive singular taibhse, plural taibhsean)

  1. common murre

Mutation edit

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
taibhse thaibhse
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.