Tuirc

See also: tuirc

Irish

Etymology

From Medieval Latin Turcia, from Turcus (“Turk”), from Byzantine Greek Τοῦρκος (Toûrkos).

Proper noun

An Tuirc f (genitive na Tuirce)

1. Turkey (a country located in Thrace in southeastern Europe and Anatolia in southwestern Asia)

Declension

Declension of Tuirc

Second declension

Bare forms (no plural form of this noun) Case Singular Nominative Tuirc Vocative a Thuirc Genitive Tuirce Dative Tuirc

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an Tuirc Genitive na Tuirce Dative leis an Tuirc don Tuirc

Derived terms

• Tuircis f (“the Turkish language”)
• Turcach (“Turkish”, adjective)
• Turcach m (“Turk”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
Tuirc	Thuirc	dTuirc
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• “Turkey”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “Tuirc”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm