taigh

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish taige (compare Manx thie), a form of Old Irish tech, teg (compare modern Irish teach, tigh), from Proto-Celtic *tegos, from Proto-Indo-European *tegos (cover, roof).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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taigh m (genitive singular taighe, plural taighean)

  1. house, dwelling
    Tha Seumas anns an taigh.James is in the house.

Usage notes

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  • Often used in compounds.
  • Also used in the expression aig an taigh with the meaning at home:
    An robh i aig an taigh a h-uile latha?Was she at home all day?

Declension

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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

References

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “taigh”, 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), “tech, teg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language