See also: Tiarna

Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish tigerna, from Old Irish tigernae.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tiarna m (genitive singular tiarna, nominative plural tiarnaí)

  1. lord
  2. peer

Declension

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tiarna thiarna dtiarna
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), “tigerna”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 203, page 102
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 342, page 117

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