tírim
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Old Irish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Celtic *tīresmis, related to *tīros (“land”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
tírim
- dry
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 15b15
- .i. ho tírmai .i. conabí tírim
- i.e. from drought, i.e. so that it is not parched.
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 15b15
Inflection[edit]
| i-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | tírim | tírim | tírim |
| Vocative | tírim | ||
| Accusative | tírim | tírim | |
| Genitive | tírim | tírmae | tírim |
| Dative | tírim | tírim | tírim |
| Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
| Nominative | tírmai | tírmai | |
| Vocative | tírmai | ||
| Accusative | tírmai | ||
| Genitive | tírim* tírmae | ||
| Dative | tírmaib | ||
| Notes | *not when substantivized | ||
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Mutation[edit]
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| tírim | thírim | tírim pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/ |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References[edit]
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*tīros-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 379-380
Further reading[edit]
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “tírim”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language