See also: tuirc

Irish edit

Etymology edit

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

Proper noun edit

An Tuirc f (genitive na Tuirce)

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

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

Mutation edit

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 edit

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