tuath

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Old Irish túath.

Noun

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tuath (plural tuaths or tuatha)

  1. (historical) A tribe or group of people in Ireland, having a loose voluntary system of governance entered into through contracts by all members.
    • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 331:
      There was nothing fixed or enduring about many tuatha, and reflecting the itinerant character of much of Irish society, the Church developed the peculiar phenomenon of roving ecclesiastic families [...].

Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish túath, from Proto-Celtic *toutā, from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tuath f (genitive singular tuaithe, nominative plural tuatha)

  1. (historical) people, tribe
    1. country, territory
    2. petty kingdom; territorial unit (of ancient Ireland)
  2. laity
  3. rural districts, country (rural area), countryside
    Tá mo mháthair faoin tuath.
    My mother is in the country(side).

Declension

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tuath thuath dtuath
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Scottish Gaelic

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Irish túath, from Proto-Celtic *toutā, from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂.

Noun

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tuath f (genitive singular tuatha, plural tuathan)

  1. country people, folk
  2. countryside
  3. laity
  4. peasantry
  5. tenantry
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  • tuathanach (farmer, agriculturalist, peasant; tenant; yeoman)

Etymology 2

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From Old Irish túaid, túath.

Noun

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tuath f

  1. north
    Antonym: deas
Derived terms
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See also
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(compass points)

iar-thuath tuath ear-thuath
iar ear
iar-dheas deas ear-dheas


Adjective

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tuath

  1. northern, north

Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
tuath thuath
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Am Faclair Beag: "tuath".
  2. ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap

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