Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish testaigid (be lacking), from Old Irish ·testa, prototonic form of do·esta (be lacking), from to- + ess- + ·tá,[1] [2]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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teastaigh (present analytic teastaíonn, future analytic teastóidh, verbal noun teastáil, past participle teastaithe)

  1. to be wanted, to be needed
    Synonym: is mian le
    An dteastaíonn uait labhairt leis?
    Do you want to speak with him?
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 239:
      tȧstīn̄ wæmšə mə lāvə ńī.
      [Teastaíonn uaimse mo lámha a ní.]
      I want/need to wash my hands.
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 293:
      fāgn̥̄ tū nə ńī əs mō ə hȧstīs wæc, də jiə gə miniḱ
      [Fágann tú na nithe is mó a theastaíos uait i do dhiaidh go minic.]
      You often leave behind you the things you need the most.

Usage notes

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  • Used impersonally or with the object wanted/needed as the subject, with the person doing the wanting/needing expressed as the object of the preposition ó (by).

Conjugation

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
teastaigh theastaigh dteastaigh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “do·esta”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 testaigid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 239

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