teoir
Old Irish
Etymology 1
From Proto-Celtic *tisres.
Alternative forms
- téoir, teüir
Numeral
teöir
- feminine nominative of trí (“three”)
Further reading
- Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909], D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, § 385, page 242; reprinted 2017
Etymology 2
From Latin theōria, from Ancient Greek θεωρίᾱ (theōríā).[1]
Alternative forms
- teüir
Noun
teöir f (indeclinable)
Descendants
- Middle Irish: téoir
- Irish: teoir
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “teöir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Mutation
| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| teöir | theöir | teöir pronounced with /d̪̠ʲ-/ |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909], D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, § 915, page 568; reprinted 2017