tír mór in Irish

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Etymology: Literally, “big land”. The noun tír (“land”) is feminine in modern Irish, so lenition of the adjective mór (“big, great”) is expected and sometimes encountered. The standard form tír mór lacks lenition because tír was originally neuter, and adjectives are not lenited after neuter nouns. The lack of lenition has led Ó Dónaill’s dictionary to assign masculine gender to this phrase, but the only attested genitive is the unambiguously feminine na tíre móire. It is therefore preferable to consider the phrase feminine but with irregular lack of lenition on the adjective. Etymology templates: {{m-g|big land}} “big land”, {{lit|big land}} Literally, “big land” Head templates: {{head|ga|noun|genitive singular|tíre móire||||||||-|||||cat2=|f1request=1|f4request=1|g=f|g2=|g3=|head=}} tír mór f (genitive singular tíre móire), {{ga-noun|f|tíre móire|-}} tír mór f (genitive singular tíre móire) Inflection templates: {{ga-mut}} Forms: tíre móire [genitive, singular], no-table-tags [table-tags], nominative [indefinite], tír mór [indefinite, singular], - [indefinite, plural], vocative [indefinite], - [indefinite, singular], genitive [indefinite], tíre móire [indefinite, singular], dative [indefinite], no-table-tags [table-tags], nominative [definite], an tír mór [definite, singular], - [definite, plural], genitive [definite], na tíre móire [definite, singular], dative [definite], leis an dtír mór [definite, singular], don tír mór [definite, singular], no-table-tags [table-tags], tír mór [error-unrecognized-form], thír mór [error-unrecognized-form], dtír mór [error-unrecognized-form], tír mhór [alternative]

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"tír mór" meaning in Irish

Noun