tuir

See also: Tuïr, tùir, and túir

Irish

Etymology

Probably a byform of tor (“tower, pillar, warrior”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /t̪ˠɪɾʲ/

Noun

tuir f (genitive singular tuire or tuireadh, nominative plural tuire or tuirthe) (obsolete)

  1. pillar, prop
  2. (figuratively) hero, warrior

Declension

As a second-declension noun:

Declension of tuir

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tuir tuire
Vocative a thuir a thuire
Genitive tuire tuir
Dative tuir tuire

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an tuir na tuire
Genitive na tuire na dtuir
Dative leis an tuir

don tuir

 leis na tuire

As a fifth-declension noun:

Declension of tuir

Fifth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tuir tuirthe
Vocative a thuir a thuirthe
Genitive tuireadh tuirthe
Dative tuiridh tuirthe

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an tuir na tuirthe
Genitive na tuireadh na dtuirthe
Dative leis an tuiridh

don tuiridh

 leis na tuirthe

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tuir thuir dtuir
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • “1 tuir” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • “tuir” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
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