tiugh

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Irish

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Adjective

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

  1. Obsolete spelling of tiubh.

Declension

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tiugh thiugh dtiugh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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tiugh (comparative tighe)

  1. thick, dense

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
tiugh thiugh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  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