teaghais

Irish

Etymology

Old Irish tegdais, tegais, tegdas, techdais (“house, dwelling, mansion”). Related to tech (“house”).

Noun

teaghais f (genitive singular teaghaise, nominative plural teaghaisí)

1. (literary) house, dwelling
2. tabernacle, church
3. room, apartment
4. (ecclesiastical) see

Declension

Declension of teaghais

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative teaghais teaghaisí Vocative a theaghais a theaghaisí Genitive teaghaise teaghaisí Dative teaghais teaghaisí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an teaghais na teaghaisí Genitive na teaghaise na dteaghaisí Dative leis an teaghais don teaghais leis na teaghaisí

Derived terms

• teaghasán

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
teaghais	theaghais	dteaghais
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), “teaghais”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language