tosaigh

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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
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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

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