étig

From é- (“un-”) + a reflex of Proto-Celtic *tekos (“fair”) seen also in Welsh teg.

• IPA^(key): /ˈeː.dʲəɣʲ/

étig (comparative éitchiu)

1. ugly
   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 28^b6

     qualitas .i. cid maith, cid olc, cid álaind, cid étig.

     A quality, i.e. whether it be good, bad, beautiful, or ugly.

2. unseemly, uncomely
   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 138^b4

     cum nobis .i. étig sin

     [The combination] cum nobis, that [is] unseemly-sounding. (see the etymology of Latin nobiscum for details)

3. repulsive

• álaind
• cáem

• Irish: éidigh

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “étig”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language