English Explanatory Dictionary

Tír na nÓg

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The Land of (eternal) Youth; one of the names for the Celtic otherworld (or possibly a part thereof).

Word forms

Tír na nÓg

Etymology

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.

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