tír – Irish noun declension

Noun: tír

Gender: Fem

Forms without Article

Singular Nominative	tír
Singular Genitive	tíre
Plural Nominative	tíortha
Plural Genitive	tíortha

Forms with Article

Singular Nominative	an tír
Singular Genitive	na tíre
Plural Nominative	na tíortha
Plural Genitive	na dtíortha

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like tír

máthairthír, míntír, mórthír, tír,

Etymology

From Old Irish tír, from Proto-Celtic *tīros, from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”), i.e. “dry land” as opposed to lake or sea. Cognates include English thirst, Latin terra. See: English Nouns 'thirst', Latin Nouns 'terra'.

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