toirsech
Old Irish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
toirsech
- mournful, sorrowful
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 29d19
- Ná ba thoirsech cía béo-sa hi carcair.
- Do not be mournful even though I am in prison.
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 29d19
Declension edit
o/ā-stem | |||
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Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | toirsech | toirsech | toirsech |
Vocative | toirsig* toirsech** | ||
Accusative | toirsech | toirsig | |
Genitive | toirsig | toirsige | toirsig |
Dative | toirsech | toirsig | toirsech |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
Nominative | toirsig | toirsecha | |
Vocative | toirsechu toirsecha† | ||
Accusative | toirsechu toirsecha† | ||
Genitive | toirsech | ||
Dative | toirsechaib | ||
Notes | *modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative **modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative |
Descendants edit
Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
toirsech | thoirsech | toirsech pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “toirsech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language