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Tír na nÓg

Tír na nÓg proper noun: the Land of (eternal) Youth; one of the names for the Celtic otherworld (or possibly a part thereof).

Proper noun

Tír na nÓg

  1. (Irish) The Land of (eternal) Youth; one of the names for the Celtic otherworld (or possibly a part thereof).
    • In the old Irish folklore, this is a land where no one gets old or sick and where heroes live in comfort and tranquillity. But the land of Tír na nÓg only materialises to mere mortals at certain times, under certain circumstances.2013, John Jacob English, Fragile Blue, AuthorHouse, page 40
    • Tír na nÓg is not an afterlife analogous to the Christian concept of heaven but an Otherworld of earthly paradise that is home to the genealogical ancestors of the fairies, the Tuatha Dé Danaan.2016, Christopher Collins, Theatre and Residual Culture, Springer Nature (Palgrave Macmillan), page 261

Origin of Tír na nÓg

Borrowed from Irish Tír na nÓg (literally “land of the young”), from Old Irish Tír inna nÓc. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic Tìr nan Òg, Manx Çheer ny Aeg.

Questions about Tír na nÓg

What does Tír na nÓg mean?
Tír na nÓg means the Land of (eternal) Youth; one of the names for the Celtic otherworld (or possibly a part thereof).
What part of speech is Tír na nÓg?
Tír na nÓg is a proper noun.

Words near Tír na nÓg in the dictionary

  1. tête-de-pont
  2. tête-à-tête
  3. tête-à-têtes
  4. têtes-de-pont
  5. Tír na n-Óg
  6. Tír na nÓg
  7. Tórshavn
  8. Tôkyô
  9. tögrög
  10. tölt
  11. tölted

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