tairngeartach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish tairngertach (“one foretold or prophesied”), from do·airngir (“promises; foretells, prophesies”, verb).

Noun

tairngeartach m (genitive singular tairngeartaigh, nominative plural tairngeartaigh)

1. prophesied one, deliverer

Declension

Declension of tairngeartach (first declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative tairngeartach tairngeartaigh vocative a thairngeartaigh a thairngeartacha genitive tairngeartaigh tairngeartach dative tairngeartach tairngeartaigh forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an tairngeartach na tairngeartaigh genitive an tairngeartaigh na dtairngeartach dative leis an tairngeartach don tairngeartach leis na tairngeartaigh

Adjective

tairngeartach (genitive singular masculine tairngeartaigh, genitive singular feminine tairngeartaí, plural tairngeartacha, not comparable)

1. prophetic

   Synonyms: fáidhiúil, fáistineach

Declension

Declension of tairngeartach

Positive	singular		plural
	masculine	feminine	strong noun	weak noun
nominative	tairngeartach	thairngeartach	tairngeartacha; thairngeartacha2
vocative	thairngeartaigh		tairngeartacha
genitive		tairngeartaí	tairngeartacha	tairngeartach
dative	tairngeartach; thairngeartach1	thairngeartach; thairngeartaigh (archaic)	tairngeartacha; thairngeartacha2
Comparative	níos tairngeartaí
Superlative	is tairngeartaí

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Mutated forms of tairngeartach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
tairngeartach	thairngeartach	dtairngeartach

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tairngeartach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “prophetic”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tairngertach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “tairngeartach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm