Tailtiu
English
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Proper noun
[edit]Tailtiu
- (Irish mythology) A presumed goddess who was the survivor of the invasion of Tuatha Dé Danann and was the foster mother of Lugh.
- The town in County Meath that was named after her.
Alternative forms
[edit]Old Irish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Tailtiu f (genitive Tailten)
- Teltown (a town in County Meath, Ireland)
- (Irish mythology) A goddess in Irish mythology originally serving as a personification of the town.
Inflection
[edit]| Feminine n-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | Tailtiu | — | — |
| Vocative | Tailtiu | — | — |
| Accusative | TailtinN | — | — |
| Genitive | Tailten | — | — |
| Dative | TailtinL, TailtiuL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “Tailtiu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Irish mythology
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- Old Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Irish lemmas
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- sga:Towns in County Meath, Ireland
- sga:Towns in Ireland
- sga:Places in County Meath, Ireland
- sga:Places in Ireland
- sga:Irish mythology
- Old Irish masculine or feminine n-stem nouns
- Old Irish uncountable nouns
- sga:Gods