tùirse

See also: tuirse

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish tuirse, from Old Irish toirse f (“sorrow, pain; act of sorrowing, complaining; weariness, fatigue”), originally toros.

Noun

tùirse f

  1. affliction, dejection, grief, melancholy, mourning, sadness, sorrow

References
  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • “toirse” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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