tiargáil

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Alteration, with semantic differentiation, of tiaráil (“travail, drudgery”), from tiaradh (“making an effort to find”), from t(h)iar (“back, behindhand”).

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /tʲiː(ə)ɾˠˈɡɑːlʲtʲ/[2] (as if spelled tíorgáilt)

Noun

tiargáil f (genitive singular tiargála)

  1. (rare) preparing (acting as a verbal noun for a verb with no finite forms) [with chun ‘to’]
    ag tiargáil chun iascaigh ― preparing to go fishing

Declension

Declension of tiargáil (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative tiargáil
vocative a thiargáil
genitive tiargála
dative tiargáil
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an tiargáil
genitive na tiargála
dative leis an tiargáil
don tiargáil

Synonyms

Mutation

Mutated forms of tiargáil
radical lenition eclipsis
tiargáil thiargáil dtiargáil

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ “tíorgáil”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 222, page 113

Further reading

  • “tiargáil”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “tiargáil”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 1204; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tiargáil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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