tiach

Irish

Alternative forms

  • tiagh

Etymology

From Old Irish tíag (“wallet, satchel”), from Latin thēca (“case, envelope, sheath”),[1] from Ancient Greek θήκη (thḗkē, “a case, box, receptacle”), from τίθημι (títhēmi, “put, set, place”).

Noun

tiach f (genitive singular téiche, nominative plural tiacha)

  1. (dated) knapsack, satchel
  2. (microbiology) theca

Declension

Declension of tiach (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative tiach tiacha
vocative a thiach a thiacha
genitive téiche tiach
dative tiach
téich (archaic, dialectal) 		tiacha
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an tiach na tiacha
genitive na téiche na dtiach
dative leis an tiach
leis an téich (archaic, dialectal)
don tiach
don téich (archaic, dialectal) 		leis na tiacha

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of tiach
radical lenition eclipsis
tiach thiach dtiach

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), “tíag”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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