tuismitheoir

Irish

Etymology

From tuismigh (“to beget, procreate”) +‎ -itheoir (agent suffix).

Noun

tuismitheoir m (genitive singular tuismitheora, nominative plural tuismitheoirí)

1. parent

Declension

Declension of tuismitheoir (third declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative tuismitheoir tuismitheoirí vocative a thuismitheoir a thuismitheoirí genitive tuismitheora tuismitheoirí dative tuismitheoir tuismitheoirí forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an tuismitheoir na tuismitheoirí genitive an tuismitheora na dtuismitheoirí dative leis an tuismitheoir don tuismitheoir leis na tuismitheoirí

Synonyms

• tuiste

Hyponyms

• athair (“father”)
• máthair (“mother”)

Related terms

• tuismíocht f (“parentage; origin, source”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of tuismitheoir

radical	lenition	eclipsis
tuismitheoir	thuismitheoir	dtuismitheoir

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “tuismitheoir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN