turchair

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish turchur.

Verb

turchair (past thurchair, future turchairidh, verbal noun turchairt)

1. happen, chance

   Thurchair dhaibh a thighinn dhachaigh aig an aon àm. ― They happened to come home at the same time.

   a thurchair a bhith a' dol seachad ― who happened/chanced to be passing by.

   nan turchradh dhuinn a bhith ― if we happen to be

   Thurchair mi air. ― I chanced on it / I met him by chance.

Synonyms

• tachair

References

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “turchur”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language