teach leanna

Irish

Alternative forms

  • tigh leanna, toigh leanna

Etymology

From Middle Irish taig leanda (“drinking hall”).[1] Literally, “house of beer”.

Noun

teach leanna m (genitive singular tí leanna, nominative plural tithe leanna)

  1. pub, public house
  2. bar (business licensed to sell intoxicating beverages)
  3. alehouse, beer parlour

Synonyms

Mutation

Mutated forms of teach leanna
radical lenition eclipsis
teach leanna theach leanna dteach leanna

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), “tech, teg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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