taigh

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /t̪ʰɤj/, (unstressed) /t̪ʰə/
• (Wester Ross) IPA^(key): /t̪ʰaj/
• (Islay, Sutherland, Easter Ross) IPA^(key): /t̪ʰe/

Noun

taigh m (genitive singular taighe, plural taighean)

1. house, dwelling

   Tha Seumas anns an taigh. ― James is in the house.

Usage notes

• 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

Declension of taigh (class IIc masculine noun)

indefinite
	singular	plural
nominative	taigh	taighean
genitive	taighe	thaighean
dative	taigh	taighean; taighibh✝
definite
	singular	plural
nominative	(an) taigh	(na) taighean
genitive	(an) taighe	(nan) taighean
dative	(an) taigh	(na) taighean; taighibh✝
vocative	thaigh	thaighean

^✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century

Derived terms

• fear an taighe
• fear-taighe
• gobhlan-taighe
• ionad-thaighean
• taigh beag
• taigh nam bòcan
• Taigh nam Morairean
• Taigh nan Cumantan
• taigh-airm
• taigh-altraim
• taigh-bìdh
• taigh-ceàirde
• taigh-chearc
• taigh-cluiche
• taigh-cùirte
• taigh-dealbh
• taigh-dhealbh
• taigh-eiridinn
• taigh-eun
• taigh-faire
• taigh-gnìomhachais
• taigh-ionnlaid
• taigh-leighis
• taigh-malairt
• taigh-oibre
• taigh-òsda
• taigh-seinnse
• taigh-siùrsachd
• taigh-solais
• taigh-staile
• taigh-strìopachais
• taigh-tasgaidh
• taigh-tinneis
• taigh-tionnsgain

 

Mutation

Mutation of taigh

radical	lenition
taigh	thaigh

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

Further reading

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “taigh”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[2], 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