tuiseal

tuiseal

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish tuisel (“fall, stumble; accident, misfortune; grammatical case”), verbal noun of do·fuisli (“slips, stumbles; glides, flows”).

Noun

tuiseal m (genitive singular tuisil, nominative plural tuisil)

1. (grammar) case
2. Alternative form of tuisle

Declension

Declension of tuiseal

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative tuiseal tuisil Vocative a thuisil a thuiseala Genitive tuisil tuiseal Dative tuiseal tuisil

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an tuiseal na tuisil Genitive an tuisil na dtuiseal Dative leis an tuiseal don tuiseal leis na tuisil

Derived terms

• claontuiseal m (“oblique case”)
• tuiseal cuspóireach m (“objective case, accusative case”)
• tuiseal gairmeach m (“vocative case”)
• tuiseal ginideach m (“genitive case”)
• tuiseal sealbhach m (“possessive case”)
• tuiseal tabharthach m (“dative case”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
tuiseal	thuiseal	dtuiseal
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• "tuiseal" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “tuisel” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish tuisel (“fall, stumble; accident, misfortune; grammatical case”), verbal noun of do·fuisli (“slips, stumbles; glides, flows”).

Noun

tuiseal m (genitive singular tuiseil, plural tuisealan or tuislean)

1. (grammar) case

Derived terms

• tuiseal ablatach (“ablative case”)
• tuiseal ainmneach (“nominative case”)
• tuiseal aitreabhach (“locative case”)
• tuiseal bunasach (“citation form of a noun (in linguistics)”)
• tuiseal cuspaireach (“accusative case”)
• tuiseal gairmeach (“vocative case”)
• tuiseal ginideach (“genitive case”)
• tuiseal innealach (“instrumental case”)
• tuiseal pàirteach (“partitive case”)
• tuiseal tabhartach (“dative case”)

 

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
tuiseal	thuiseal
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Black, Ronald. Cothrom Ionnsachaidh: A Chance to Learn Scottish Gaelic Grammar and Exercises Peebles, Scotland: Published by the author (2002), p.212.
• “tuisel” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.