tiugh

Irish

Adjective

tiugh (genitive singular masculine tiugh, genitive singular feminine tighe, plural tiugha, comparative tighe)

  1. obsolete spelling of tiubh

Declension

Declension of tiugh
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative tiugh thiugh tiugha;
thiugha2
vocative thiugh tiugha
genitive tighe tiugha tiugh
dative tiugh;
thiugh1 		thiugh tiugha;
thiugha2
Comparative níos tighe
Superlative is tighe

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

Mutation

Mutated forms of tiugh
radical lenition eclipsis
tiugh thiugh dtiugh

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

References

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish tiug (compare Irish tiubh, Manx çhiu), from Proto-Celtic *tegus, from Proto-Indo-European *tégus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

tiugh (comparative tighe)

  1. thick, dense

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of tiugh
radical lenition
tiugh thiugh

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

References

  1. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “tiugh”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 tiug”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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