tuar

See also: tüär

Franco-Provençal

Alternative forms

  • tuè, tué, tyô, tyué, tyore, tyâ, tchâ

Etymology

Inherited from Latin tūtārī (ward off).

Verb

tuar (ORB, broad)

  1. kill

References

  • tuer in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
  • tuar in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish túar (cultivation).[1]

Noun

tuar m (genitive singular tuair, nominative plural tuartha)

  1. excrement, ordure
Declension
Declension of tuar (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative tuar tuartha
vocative a thuair a thuartha
genitive tuair tuartha
dative tuar tuartha
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an tuar na tuartha
genitive an tuair na dtuartha
dative leis an tuar
don tuar
leis na tuartha
Alternative forms
Synonyms

Etymology 2

From Middle Irish túaraid (to presage).[2]

Verb

tuar (present analytic tuarann, future analytic tuarfaidh, verbal noun tuar, past participle tuartha) (transitive)

  1. to forebode, portend
  2. to foresee, forecast, foretell
Conjugation
Alternative forms

Etymology 3

From Old Irish túar (presaging),[3] verbal noun of túaraid (to presage).

Noun

tuar m (genitive singular tuair, nominative plural tuartha)

  1. verbal noun of tuar
  2. portent, sign, omen
Declension
Declension of tuar (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative tuar tuartha
vocative a thuair a thuartha
genitive tuair tuartha
dative tuar tuartha
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an tuar na tuartha
genitive an tuair na dtuartha
dative leis an tuar
don tuar
leis na tuartha
Alternative forms
Derived terms
  • dea-thuar (good omen)
  • droch-thuar (unlucky omen)
  • tuarúil (presaging; portentous, ominous, adjective)

Etymology 4

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

tuar (present analytic tuarann, future analytic tuarfaidh, verbal noun tuar, past participle tuartha)

  1. (ambitransitive) to bleach, blanch, whiten
  2. (ambitransitive) to season
  3. to dry (by exposure)
  4. to inure
Conjugation
  • Alternative verbal noun: tuaradh
Derived terms
  • tuarachán ((act of) bleaching)
  • tuarghort (bleach-field)
  • tuarlofa (decayed from over-exposure on ground)

Etymology 5

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

tuar m (genitive singular tuair, nominative plural tuartha)

  1. verbal noun of tuar (to bleach)
Declension
Declension of tuar (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative tuar tuartha
vocative a thuair a thuartha
genitive tuair tuartha
dative tuar tuartha
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an tuar na tuartha
genitive an tuair na dtuartha
dative leis an tuar
don tuar
leis na tuartha
Alternative forms
  • tuaradh

Mutation

Mutated forms of tuar
radical lenition eclipsis
tuar thuar dtuar

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 túar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 túaraid, túairid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 túar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “tuar”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 1265; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “tuaraim”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 1266; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “tuar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “tuar”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
  • tuar”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan tuar, from Latin tūtāri (avert, ward off).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tyˈa/
  • Audio (Béarn):(file)

Verb

tuar

  1. (transitive) to kill, to murder

Conjugation