tarmachan

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Scottish Gaelic tarmachan.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈt̪ˠaɾəmˠəxənˠ/

Noun

tarmachan m (genitive singular tarmachain, nominative plural tarmachain)

  1. ptarmigan

Declension
Declension of tarmachan

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tarmachan tarmachain
Vocative a tharmachain a tharmachana
Genitive tarmachain tarmachan
Dative tarmachan tarmachain

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an tarmachan na tarmachain
Genitive an tarmachain na dtarmachan
Dative leis an tarmachan

don tarmachan

 leis na tarmachain

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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

Unknown, but compare tàrmachadh (“originating, producing”), from Old Irish tórmach.[1] MacBain suggests an imitative base tarm (“murmur”).[2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈt̪ʰaɾaməxan/

Noun

tarmachan m (genitive singular tarmachain, plural tarmachanan)

  1. ptarmigan

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
tarmachantharmachan
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Skeat, W. W. (1882). An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language: Arranged on an Historical Basis. United Kingdom: Clarendon Press, p. 475
  2. MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “tàrmachan”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN
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