taighde

Irish

Alternative forms

• toighdeadh, toighead, toighid (superseded)

Etymology

From Middle Irish toichid (“seeking, suing”), verbal noun of Old Irish do·saig (“to approach”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt̪ˠəidʲə/

Noun

taighde m (genitive singular taighde)

1. verbal noun of taighd (“to research, investigate”)

   Synonym: taighde a dhéanamh

2. research

Declension

Declension of taighde (fourth declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative taighde vocative a thaighde genitive taighde dative taighde forms with the definite article case singular nominative an taighde genitive an taighde dative leis an taighde don taighde

Derived terms

• taighdeoir

Mutation

Mutated forms of taighde

radical	lenition	eclipsis
taighde	thaighde	dtaighde

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

Further reading

• “taighde”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 taigde”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “toichid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “taighde”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “toiġdeaḋ, toiġead”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 740