tuata

Irish

Alternative forms

  • tuathta (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

From Old Irish túatae.[2] By surface analysis, tuath +‎ -ta.

Adjective

tuata (not comparable)

  1. lay (nonclergy; nonprofessional)
  2. secular (not specifically religious)
  3. temporal (of or relating to the material world)

Declension

Declension of tuata
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative tuata thuata tuata;
thuata2
vocative thuata tuata
genitive tuata tuata tuata
dative tuata;
thuata1 		thuata tuata;
thuata2
Comparative (not comparable)
Superlative (not comparable)

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

Derived terms

  • bráthair tuata (“lay brother”)
  • tútach

Noun

tuata m (genitive singular tuata, nominative plural tuataí)

  1. layperson (one who is not a cleric; one who is not intimately familiar with a given subject)
  2. (in the plural) laity
  3. rustic
    Synonym: tuathánach

Declension

Declension of tuata (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative tuata tuataí
vocative a thuata a thuataí
genitive tuata tuataí
dative tuata tuataí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an tuata na tuataí
genitive an tuata na dtuataí
dative leis an tuata
don tuata 		leis na tuataí

Derived terms

  • mac an tsaoir ábhar an tuata (“a craftsperson’s child may become a layperson in that craft”) (proverb)

Mutation

Mutated forms of tuata
radical lenition eclipsis
tuata thuata dtuata

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

References

  1. ^ “tuata”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “túatae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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