turaire

Irish

Etymology

A combination of Irish tur ("dry, insipid, frugal") + -aire ("noun-forming suffix"). The root tur is from Proto-Indo-European *ters- ("dry").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t̪ˠʊɾˠɪɾʲɛ/

Noun

turaire m (genitive singular turaire, nominative plural turairí)

1. A person who eats food without any sauce, meat or condiments.
2. Someone who lacks a sense of humour.
3. Someone who is unbearably dry, stiff and lifeless.

Derived Terms

• turaireacht (“humourlessness, dryness”)

 

Declension

Declension of tuairire

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative tuairire tuairirí Vocative a thuairire a thuairirí Genitive tuairire tuairirí Dative tuairire tuairirí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an tuairire na tuairirí Genitive an tuairire na dtuairirí Dative leis an tuairire don tuairire leis na tuairirí

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
turaire	thuraire	dturaire
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further Reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “turaire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN