táilliúir
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish táilliúr (compare Scottish Gaelic tàillear, Manx thalhear), from Anglo-Norman taillour (compare English tailor), from taillier (“to cut; to shape”), from Late Latin taliō.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Munster) IPA(key): /t̪ˠɑˈl̠ʲuːɾʲ/[2] (as if spelled tailliúir)
- (Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈt̪ˠɑːl̠ʲuːɾʲ/
- (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈt̪ˠaːl̠ʲuɾˠ/[3] (corresponding to the form táilliúr)
Noun
[edit]táilliúir m (genitive singular táilliúra, nominative plural táilliúirí)
- tailor (person who makes, repairs, and alters clothes)
- Coordinate term: bantáilliúir
- tailor, bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix)
Declension
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Derived terms
[edit]- ag tóraíocht táilliúra i mbruth faoi thír (“looking for a needle in a haystack”)
- déanta ón táilliúir (“tailor-made, made to measure”)
- iarann táilliúra (“tailor's goose”)
- léim táilliúra (“somersault performed with legs crossed”)
- méaracán táilliúra (“tailor's, open-ended, thimble”)
- siosúr táilliúra (“cutting-out scissors”)
- snáithe fada an táilliúra fhalsa (“slipshod work”, literally “the lazy tailor's long stitch”)
- táilliúir gan miosúr (“an ill-equipped person”, literally “a tailor without a measuring-tape”)
Noun
[edit]táilliúir
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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táilliúir | tháilliúir | dtáilliúir |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “táilliúr”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 78
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 20
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “táilliúir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “táilliúir”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “táilliúir”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
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