teaghais

Irish

Etymology

Old Irish tegdais, tegais, tegdas, techdais (“house, dwelling, mansion”). Related to tech (“house”).

Noun

teaghais f (genitive singular teaghaise, nominative plural teaghaisí)

1. (literary) house, dwelling
2. tabernacle, church
3. room, apartment
4. (ecclesiastical) see

Declension

Declension of teaghais (second declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative teaghais teaghaisí vocative a theaghais a theaghaisí genitive teaghaise teaghaisí dative teaghais teaghaisí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an teaghais na teaghaisí genitive na teaghaise na dteaghaisí dative leis an teaghais don teaghais leis na teaghaisí

Derived terms

• teaghasán

Mutation

Mutated forms of teaghais

radical	lenition	eclipsis
teaghais	theaghais	dteaghais

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “teaghais”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language