Toirdhealbhach
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Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Derived From Middle Irish Tairdelbach, from tairdelb (“promotion, furthering”), thus originally a by-name meaning “instigator”.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Toirdhealbhach m
- a male given name from Old Irish, often anglicized Turlough or Terence, the latter of which this name shares no etymological relation with.
Descendants
[edit]- → English: Turlough
Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| Toirdhealbhach | Thoirdhealbhach | dToirdhealbhach |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
[edit]- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 75
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tairdelb”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Ó Corráin, Donnchadh, Maguire, Fidelma (1981) Gaelic Personal Names, Dublin: The Academy Press, →ISBN, page 169