tostach

Irish

Alternative forms

  • sostach, tochtach, tostanach, tostmhar
  • tosdach, tosdanach (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

From Middle Irish tostach.[2] By surface analysis, tost +‎ -ach. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic tosdach.

Adjective

tostach (genitive singular masculine tostaigh, genitive singular feminine tostaí, plural tostacha, comparative tostaí)

  1. silent, mute
  2. taciturn
    fear/duine tostach ― a man of few words
  3. tacit

Declension

Declension of tostach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative tostach thostach tostacha;
thostacha2
vocative thostaigh tostacha
genitive tostaí tostacha tostach
dative tostach;
thostach1 		thostach;
thostaigh (archaic) 		tostacha;
thostacha2
Comparative níos tostaí
Superlative is tostaí

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

Derived terms

  • scannán tostach (“silent film”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of tostach
radical lenition eclipsis
tostach thostach dtostach

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

References

  1. ^ “tostach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tostach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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