Irish edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

New formation to the past tense tharla (happened), from Old Irish do·rala, ·tarla (happened; put (past tense)) (suppletive preterite of do·cuirethar),[1] from to- + ro- + Proto-Celtic *layeti, from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁- (let, leave) (Latin lētum (death); Old Church Slavonic лѣнъ (lěnŭ, lazy); Hittite [script needed] (laizzi, lets); Lithuanian liáutis (stop); Gothic 𐌻𐌴𐍅𐌾𐌰𐌽 (lēwjan, betray), 𐌻𐌴𐍅 (lēw, opportunity, cause)).[2] Compare Scottish Gaelic tàrlaidh.

Alternative forms edit

Verb edit

tarlaigh (defective, present analytic tarlaíonn, past analytic tharla, verbal noun tarlú)

  1. to happen, befall, occur
Conjugation edit

Etymology 2 edit

From the verbal noun tarlú (haulage), from earlier tarlódh.[3]

Alternative forms edit

Verb edit

tarlaigh (present analytic tarlaíonn, future analytic tarlóidh, verbal noun tarlú, past participle tarlaithe)

  1. to haul, drag
  2. to draw (up, out; pull)
  3. to transport
Conjugation edit

Mutation edit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tarlaigh tharlaigh dtarlaigh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References edit

  1. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “do·cuirethar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 235
  3. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “tarlód”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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