Tadhg

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish Tadg (whence also Old Norse Taðkr), from the common noun tadg (poet),[1] from pre-Goidelic *tazgos, from Proto-Celtic *taskos (badger). Cognate with Manx Taig and with Gaulish names like Tasgetius, Tasciovanus, Moritasgus.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Tadhg m (genitive Thaidhg)

  1. a male given name from Old Irish, historically anglicized as Thaddeus or Timothy but etymologically unrelated to them.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
Tadhg Thadhg dTadhg
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 tadg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 195, page 98
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 70, page 30

Further reading

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