Irish edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Old Irish tosaigid (begins, verb), from tosach (beginning).[2]

Alternative forms edit

Verb edit

tosaigh (present analytic tosaíonn, future analytic tosóidh, verbal noun tosú, past participle tosaithe) (transitive, intransitive)

  1. begin, commence
  2. start, initiate
Conjugation edit
Related terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

tosaigh m

  1. inflection of tosach:
    1. vocative/genitive singular
    2. nominative/dative plural

Mutation edit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tosaigh thosaigh dtosaigh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References edit

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 180, page 91
  2. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “tosaigid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading edit