tostach
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Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish tostach.[2] By surface analysis, tost + -ach. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic tosdach.
Adjective
[edit]tostach (genitive singular masculine tostaigh, genitive singular feminine tostaí, plural tostacha, comparative tostaí)
Declension
[edit]Declension of tostach
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | tostach | thostach | tostacha; thostacha² | |
| Vocative | thostaigh | tostacha | ||
| Genitive | tostaí | tostacha | tostach | |
| Dative | tostach; thostach¹ |
thostach; thostaigh (archaic) |
tostacha; thostacha² | |
| Comparative | níos tostaí | |||
| Superlative | is tostaí | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Derived terms
[edit]- scannán tostach (“silent film”)
Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| tostach | thostach | dtostach |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
[edit]- ^ “tostach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tostach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Further reading
[edit]- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “tostaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 748
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tostach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN