tuar

See also: tüär

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish túar (cultivation).

Noun

tuar m (genitive singular tuair, nominative plural tuartha)

    1. dung, manure
    2. manuring of land; manured land
    1. cattle-field; sheep-run
    2. pasture, lea
Declension
Alternative forms

Etymology 2

From Old Irish túaraid (to presage).

Verb

tuar (present analytic tuarann, future analytic tuarfaidh, verbal noun tuar, past participle tuartha)

  1. (transitive) augur, forebode presage
  2. (transitive) deserve, merit
Conjugation
Alternative forms

Etymology 3

From Old Irish túar (presaging), verbal noun of túaraid (to presage).

Noun

tuar m (genitive singular tuair, nominative plural tuartha)

  1. verbal noun of tuar
  2. sign, omen
Declension
Alternative forms
Derived terms
  • dea-thuar (good omen)
  • droch-thuar (unlucky omen)
  • tuarúil (presaging; portentous, ominous, adjective)

Etymology 4

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Verb

tuar (present analytic tuarann, future analytic tuarfaidh, verbal noun tuar, past participle tuartha)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) bleach; blanch whiten
  2. (transitive, intransitive) season
    1. dry by exposure
    2. inure
    3. sate, weary (de (with))
Conjugation
  • Alternative verbal noun: tuaradh
Derived terms
  • tuarachán ((act of) bleaching)
  • tuarghort (bleach-field)
  • tuarlofa (decayed from over-exposure on ground)

Etymology 5

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

tuar m (genitive singular tuair, nominative plural tuartha)

  1. verbal noun of tuar (bleach; blanch, whiten; season; dry by exposure; inure; sate, weary)
  2. bleaching-green
Declension
Alternative forms
  • tuaradh

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tuar thuar dtuar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading


Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan tuar, from Latin *tuto.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tyˈa/
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Verb

tuar

  1. (transitive) to kill, to murder

Conjugation

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