tighearnas

Irish

Noun

tighearnas m (genitive singular tighearnais, nominative plural tighearnais)

1. Superseded spelling of tiarnas.

Declension

Declension of tighearnas

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative tighearnas tighearnais Vocative a thighearnais a thighearnasa Genitive tighearnais tighearnas Dative tighearnas tighearnais

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an tighearnas na tighearnais Genitive an tighearnais na dtighearnas Dative leis an tighearnas don tighearnas leis na tighearnais

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
tighearnas	thighearnas	dtighearnas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tighearna”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish tigernas, from tigerna. By surface analysis, tighearna +‎ -as.

Noun

tighearnas m (genitive singular tighearnais)

1. lordship, domain, estate
2. proprietorship, peerage

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
tighearnas	thighearnas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “tigernas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language