Etymograph

English

Tánaiste

Tánaiste comes from Irish tánaiste ‘second-in-command, tanist’, and goes back to Old Irish tánaise.

  1. Old Irishc. 600–900tánaise
  2. Irishc. 1200–presenttánaiste‘second-in-command, tanist’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2023Tánaiste

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Old Irishc. 600–900tánaise
  2. Irishc. 1200–presenttánaiste‘second-in-command, tanist’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2023Tánaiste

Earliest quotation: 2023, Emma Graham-Harrison, Alarm over ‘fascist-like’ protest at Ireland’s seat of gover: “On Thursday, the tánaiste, or deputy prime minister, Micheál…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *sed- ‘to sit’

set, president, size, sell, sit, sitting, seat, method, session, chair, resident, settle, assess, possess, siege, niche, nest, saddle, exodus, reside, subsidy, sedan, residue, residual, sediment, nye, insidious, sedentary, beset, prasad, cathode, soot, sedative, dissident, obsess, anode, setter, presidio, sedate, sessile, 97 more

Today it means

name the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Ireland

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Old Irish tánaise / Tánaiste

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