Irish edit

Etymology edit

From Old Irish tairngire.

Noun edit

tairngire f (genitive singular tairngire)

  1. Alternative form of tairngreacht

Declension edit

Mutation edit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tairngire thairngire dtairngire
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Irish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From to- +‎ ar- +‎ in- +‎ -gaire.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈtarʲŋʲɡʲirʲe]

Noun edit

tairngire n (genitive tairngiri, nominative plural tairngire)

  1. verbal noun of do·airngir: promise
    • 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. 109d5
      Ní taít Día fo tairṅgere conid·chumscaiged.
      God does not come under a promise that he should alter it.

Declension edit

Neuter io-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative tairngireN tairngireL tairngireL
Vocative tairngireN tairngireL tairngireL
Accusative tairngireN tairngireL tairngireL
Genitive tairngiriL tairngireL tairngireN
Dative tairngiriuL tairngirib tairngirib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants edit

  • Irish: tairngire

Mutation edit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
tairngire thairngire tairngire
pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading edit