toiteach

Irish

Etymology

From toit (“smoke”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

toiteach (genitive singular masculine toitigh, genitive singular feminine toití, plural toiteacha, comparative toití)

1. smoky

Declension

Declension of toiteach

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	toiteach	thoiteach	toiteacha; thoiteacha2
vocative	thoitigh		toiteacha
genitive		toití	toiteacha	toiteach
dative	toiteach; thoiteach1	thoiteach; thoitigh (archaic)	toiteacha; thoiteacha2
Comparative	níos toití
Superlative	is toití

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Synonyms

• toitiúil

Derived terms

• toiteachán (“smoke-hole, chimney”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of toiteach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
toiteach	thoiteach	dtoiteach

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “toiteach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN