tarroo
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Manx
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish tarb, from Proto-Celtic *tarwos (“bull”) (compare Welsh tarw, Cornish tarow, Breton tarv, Gaulish taruos), from Proto-Indo-European *táwros (“bull”) (compare Latin taurus).
Noun
[edit]tarroo m (genitive singular tarroo, plural terriu)
Mutation
[edit]| Manx mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| tarroo | harroo | darroo |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tarb”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language