taís

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tais"

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *taistos. Cognate with Proto-Slavic *těsto and its descendants.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtai̯s/

Noun

taís (gender unknown, genitive unattested)

1. (hapax) dough
   • 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. 140^b4

     .i. cid cré cid táis rl.

     i.e. whether clay or dough, etc.

Inflection

The word's inflection is generally taken to be an o-stem of unknown gender. However, the exact Slavic cognate is neuter.

Derived terms

• toísrenn

Descendants

• Middle Irish: tóes, táes
  • Irish: taos
  • Scottish Gaelic: taois
  • Manx: teayst

Mutation

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “taes”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language