teaspach
Irish
Alternative forms
- teasbhach
- teasbach (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle Irish tesbach, from Old Irish tess (“heat”).
Noun
teaspach m (genitive singular teaspaigh)
- heat, warmth, sultriness, hot weather
- exuberance, animal spirits, spirit, ardour, wantonness
- Synonyms: anamúlacht, spleodar
- fury (especially of warriors in battle)
Declension
Declension of teaspach
First declension
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Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
- bain an teaspaigh de (“to cool s.o.'s ardour, to having a sobering effect on”)
- dreoilín teasbhaigh (“grasshopper”)
- slaghdán teaspaigh (“hay fever”)
- tonn teaspaigh (“heatwave”)
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| teaspach | theaspach | dteaspach |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 75
Further reading
- “teaspach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “tesbach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “teasḃaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 728
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “teaspach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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