teaspach
Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Middle Irish tesbach, from Old Irish tess (“heat”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editteaspach m (genitive singular teaspaigh)
- heat, warmth, sultriness, hot weather
- exuberance, animal spirits, spirit, ardour, wantonness
- Synonyms: anamúlacht, spleodar
- fury (especially of warriors in battle)
Declension
editDeclension of teaspach
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
edit- bain an teaspaigh de (“to cool s.o.'s ardour, to having a sobering effect on”)
- dreoilín teasbhaigh (“grasshopper”)
- slaghdán teaspaigh (“hay fever”)
- tonn teaspaigh (“heatwave”)
Related terms
editMutation
editIrish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
teaspach | theaspach | dteaspach |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
edit- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 75
Further reading
edit- “teaspach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tesbach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “teasḃaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 728
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “teaspach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Categories:
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *tep-
- Irish terms inherited from Middle Irish
- Irish terms derived from Middle Irish
- Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish masculine nouns
- Irish first-declension nouns
- ga:Temperature
- ga:Weather