tostach
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]| 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]| radical | lenition | eclipsis |
|---|---|---|
| tostach | thostach | dtostach |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
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