tiubh
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish tiug[2] (compare Scottish Gaelic tiugh, Manx çhiu), from Proto-Celtic *tegus, from Proto-Indo-European *tégus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]tiubh (genitive singular masculine tiubh, genitive singular feminine tibhe, plural tiubha, comparative tibhe or tiúcha)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
nominative | tiubh | thiubh | tiubha; thiubha2 | |
vocative | thiubh | tiubha | ||
genitive | tibhe | tiubha | tiubh | |
dative | tiubh; thiubh1 |
thiubh | tiubha; thiubha2 | |
Comparative | níos tibhe | |||
Superlative | is tibhe |
1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
- Alternative comparative form: tiúcha (Cois Fharraige)
Noun
[edit]tiubh m (genitive singular tiubh)
Declension
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Verb
[edit]tiubh
- Alternative form of tiubhaigh (“thicken; concentrate”)
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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tiubh | thiubh | dtiubh |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “tiuġ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 737
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 tiug”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 30, page 17
- ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 246
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 42, page 19
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tiubh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “tiubh”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “tiubh”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024