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tútach

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From tuata (“lay, secular”) +‎ -ach.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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tútach (genitive singular masculine tútaigh, genitive singular feminine tútaí, plural tútacha, comparative tútaí)

  1. uncouth, crude, boorish, ungracious, rustic, gross
  2. clumsy, awkward
  3. mean, mean-spirited, churlish, ignoble
  4. rude, crude, primitive, coarse
  5. amateurish

Declension

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Declension of tútach
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative tútach thútach tútacha;
thútacha2
vocative thútaigh tútacha
genitive tútaí tútacha tútach
dative tútach;
thútach1 		thútach;
thútaigh (archaic) 		tútacha;
thútacha2
Comparative níos tútaí
Superlative is tútaí

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

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Mutated forms of tútach
radical lenition eclipsis
tútach thútach dtútach

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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  1. ^ “tútach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy

Further reading

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