tegdais

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʲeɣ.ðəsʲ/

Noun

tegdais f (genitive tegdaise or tegdassa, nominative plural tegdaissi)

1. house

   Synonym: tech

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 105^b7

     Is ferr liumsa buith i nneuch as doiscairem hi tír Israhel oldaas buith i nneuch di t[h]echdaisib sainemlaib ⁊ sommaib inna [Ba]bellondae.

     I would rather be in the meanest place in the land of Israel than in any of the splendid and wealthy houses of the Babylonians.

   • c. 850-875, Turin Glosses and Scholia on St Mark, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 484–94, Tur. 14

     i.e. amal tegdais fora·tochar[r] deg-lí anechtair ⁊ is fás a inchrud a mmedón. Is sam[laid]-sin ro·batar .i. amal mbís tegdis fás [a mm]edón ⁊ scópthe.

     i.e. like a house onto which good beauty is put on the outside and is empty of furniture from the inside. It is thus that they were, i.e. like a house that was empty and swept.

Inflection

Feminine ī-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	tegdaisL	tegdaisL	tegdaissiH
vocative	tegdaisL	tegdaisL	tegdaissiH
accusative	tegdaisN	tegdaisL	tegdaissiH
genitive	tegdaiseH	tegdaiseL	tegdaiseN
dative	tegdaisL	techdaisib	techdaisib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Feminine i-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	tegdais	tegdaisL	tegdaissiH
vocative	tegdais	tegdaisL	tegdaissiH
accusative	tegdaisN	tegdaisL	tegdaissiH
genitive	tegdassoH, tegdassaH	tegdassoH, tegdassaH	tegdaisseN
dative	tegdaisL	tegdaissib	tegdaissib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: tegdais, tegdas
  • Irish: teaghais

Mutation

Mutation of tegdais

radical	lenition	nasalization
tegdais	thegdais	tegdais pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old 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), “tegdais”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language