tigerna

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish tigernae.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʲiɣʲər͈n͈ə/

Noun

tigerna m

1. lord

Descendants

• Irish: tiarna
• Manx: çhiarn
• Scottish Gaelic: tighearna

Mutation

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tigerna”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language