tairngire
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- tairngere
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈtar͈ʲŋʲɡʲirʲe]
Noun
tairngire n (genitive tairngiri, nominative plural tairngire)
- promise
- 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. 109d5
- Ní taít Día fo tairṅgere conid·chumscaiged.
- God does not come under a promise that he should alter it.
- 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. 109d5
Declension
| Neuter io-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | tairngire | tairngireL | tairngireL |
| Vocative | tairngiri | tairngireL | tairngireL |
| Accusative | tairngire | tairngireL | tairngireL |
| Genitive | tairngiriL | tairngireL | tairngireN |
| Dative | tairngiriuL | tairngirib | tairngirib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
- Irish: tairngire
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| tairngire | thairngire | tairngire pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/ |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “tairngire, tarngaire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language