túaid

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• thúaid
• túaith

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *towto- (“north, left”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tuːa̯ðʲ]

Adverb

túaid

1. north, in the north

Derived terms

• antúaid

Descendants

• Irish: thuaidh
• Manx: twoaie
• Scottish Gaelic: tuath

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
túaid	thúaid	túaid pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “túaid”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “túaid, thúaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language