tiubh

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish tiug[2] (compare Scottish Gaelic tiugh, Manx çhiu), from Proto-Celtic *tegus, from Proto-Indo-European *tégus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

tiubh (genitive singular masculine tiubh, genitive singular feminine tibhe, plural tiubha, comparative tibhe or tiúcha)

  1. thick, dense, closely set
  2. fast

Declension

Declension of tiubh
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative tiubh thiubh tiubha;
thiubha2
vocative thiubh tiubha
genitive tibhe tiubha tiubh
dative tiubh;
thiubh1 		thiubh tiubha;
thiubha2
Comparative níos tibhe
Superlative is tibhe

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

  • Alternative comparative form: tiúcha (Cois Fharraige)

Noun

tiubh m (genitive singular tiubh)

  1. thick part; press, throng

Declension

Declension of tiubh (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative tiubh
vocative a thiubh
genitive tiubh
dative tiubh
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an tiubh
genitive an tiubh
dative leis an tiubh
don tiubh

Verb

tiubh

  1. alternative form of tiubhaigh (“thicken; concentrate”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of tiubh
radical lenition eclipsis
tiubh thiubh dtiubh

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

References

  1. ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “tiuġ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 737
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 tiug”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 30, page 17
  4. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 246
  5. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 42, page 19

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