teanchair

Irish

Alternative forms

  • teanachair, teannchair, teineachair, teanchar[1]

Etymology

From Old Irish tenchor.[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

teanchair f (genitive singular teanchaire, nominative plural teanchairí)

  1. tongs
  2. pincers (gripping tool), nippers
  3. (surgery) forceps
  4. pliers
  5. (bridge) tenace

Declension

Declension of teanchair (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative teanchair teanchairí
vocative a theanchair a theanchairí
genitive teanchaire teanchairí
dative teanchair teanchairí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an teanchair na teanchairí
genitive na teanchaire na dteanchairí
dative leis an teanchair
don teanchair 		leis na teanchairí

Synonyms

  • (tongs): tlú
  • (pliers): greamaire

Mutation

Mutated forms of teanchair
radical lenition eclipsis
teanchair theanchair dteanchair

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

References

  1. ^ “teanchair”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tenchor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 216

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.