Irish edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Irish tnúth.[1]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

tnúth m (genitive singular tnútha)

  1. envy
  2. longing, desire, hopeful expectation
    • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 193:
      Ní raibh aon fhear óg uasal timpall ná go raibh ag tnúth le Máire Bhán a dh’fhagháil le pósadh, ach ni raibh aon mhaith d’aoinne bheith á lorg.
      There was no young gentleman around who wasn’t longing to get Máire Bhán in marriage, but it was no use to anyone to ask her.
  3. verbal noun of tnúth

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

Verb edit

tnúth (present analytic tnúthann, future analytic tnúthfaidh, verbal noun tnúth, past participle tnúite)

  1. to envy
  2. to long for, desire, expect hopefully

Conjugation edit

Mutation edit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tnúth thnúth dtnúth
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References edit

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

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