tír - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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From Old Irish tír, from Proto-Celtic *tīros, from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”), i.e. “dry land” as opposed to lake or sea. Cognates include English thirst, Latin terra.
tír f (genitive singular tíre, nominative plural tíortha)
- Alternative plural: tíreacha (Cois Fharraige)
- alltathír f (“wild, rough, country”)
- i dtír (“ashore”)
- míntír f (“mainland”)
- mórthír f (“mainland”)
- tír chluiche f (“sporting country; hunting-ground”)
- Tír Eoghain (“Tyrone”)
- tír mór f (“mainland”)
- Tír na mBascach (“Basque County”)
- Tír na nÓg
- tírdhreach (“landscape”)
- tírghrá (“patriotism”)
| radical | lenition | eclipsis |
|---|---|---|
| tír | thír | dtír |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “tír”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 737
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tír”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 tír”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “tír”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “tír”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 46
From Proto-Celtic *tīros, from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”), i.e. ‘dry land’ as opposed to lake or sea. Cognates include English thirst, Latin terra.
tír n (genitive tíre, nominative plural tíre)
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | tírN | tírN | tíreL |
| vocative | tírN | tírN | tíreL |
| accusative | tírN | tírN | tíreL |
| genitive | tíreL | tíre | tíreN |
| dative | tírL | tírib | tírib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| tír | thír | tír pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 tír”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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