táilliúir

Irish

From Middle Irish táilliúr (compare Scottish Gaelic tàillear, Manx thalhear), from Anglo-Norman taillour (compare English tailor), from taillier (“to cut; to shape”), from Late Latin taliō.

táilliúir m (genitive singular táilliúra, nominative plural táilliúirí)

tailor (person who makes, repairs, and alters clothes)
Coordinate term: bantáilliúir
tailor (Pomatomus saltatrix)

Declension of táilliúir

Third declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an táilliúir	na táilliúirí
Genitive	an táilliúra	na dtáilliúirí
Dative	leis an táilliúir don táilliúir	leis na táilliúirí

ag tóraíocht táilliúra i mbruth faoi thír (“looking for a needle in a haystack”)
déanta ón táilliúir (“tailor-made, made to measure”)
iarann táilliúra (“tailor's goose”)
léim táilliúra (“somersault performed with legs crossed”)
méaracán táilliúra (“tailor's, open-ended, thimble”)
siosúr táilliúra (“cutting-out scissors”)
snáithe fada an táilliúra fhalsa (“slipshod work”, literally “the lazy tailor's long stitch”)
táilliúir gan miosúr (“an ill-equipped person”, literally “a tailor without a measuring-tape”)

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
táilliúir	tháilliúir	dtáilliúir
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

"táilliúir" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “táilliúr”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN
Entries containing “táilliúir” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
Entries containing “táilliúir” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

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