tírim
Old Irish
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Celtic *tīresmis, related to *tīros (“land”).[1]
Pronunciation
editAdjective
edittírim
- dry
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 15b15
- .i. ho tírmai .i. conabí tírim
- i.e. from drought, i.e. so that it is not parched.
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 15b15
Inflection
edit| i-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | tírim | tírim | tírim |
| Vocative | tírim | ||
| Accusative | tírim | tírim | |
| Genitive | tírim | tírmae | tírim |
| Dative | tírim | tírim | tírim |
| Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
| Nominative | tírmai | tírmai | |
| Vocative | tírmai | ||
| Accusative | tírmai | ||
| Genitive | tírim* tírmae | ||
| Dative | tírmaib | ||
| Notes | *not when substantivized | ||
Derived terms
editDescendants
editMutation
edit| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| tírim | thírim | tírim pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/ |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
edit- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*tīros-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 379-380
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tírim”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language