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

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	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.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tiugh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰʲu/

Adjective

tiugh (comparative tighe)

1. thick, dense

Derived terms

• is tighe fuil na bùrn

Mutation

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

• 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