Tadhg

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish Tadg (whence also Old Norse Taðkr), from the common noun tadg (“poet”),[1] from pre-Goidelic *tazgos, from Proto-Celtic *taskos (“badger”). Cognate with Manx Taig and with Gaulish names like Tasgetius, Tasciovanus, Moritasgus.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Tadhg m (genitive Thaidhg)

  1. a male given name from Old Irish, historically anglicized as Thaddeus or Timothy but etymologically unrelated to them.

Derived terms

  • Tadhg an mhargaidh (“the man in the street”)
  • Tadhg an dá thaobh (“two-faced person”)
  • aithníonn/tuigeann Tadhg Taidhgín (“it takes one to know one”)
  • Tadhgán (diminutive)
    • Ó Tadhgáin (surname)
      • → English: Te(a)gan
  • Taidhgín (diminutive)

Descendants

Mutation

Mutated forms of Tadhg
radical lenition eclipsis
Tadhg Thadhg dTadhg

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 tadg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 195, page 98
  3. ^ Mhac an Fhailigh, Éamonn (1968) The Irish of Erris, Co. Mayo: A Phonemic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, section 98, page 23
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 70, page 30

Further reading

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