tiugh

Irish

Adjective

tiugh (genitive singular masculine tiugh, genitive singular feminine tighe, plural tiugha, comparative tighe)

1. Obsolete spelling of tiubh.

Declension

Declension of tiugh

Positive	singular		plural
	masculine	feminine	strong noun	weak noun
nominative	tiugh	thiugh	tiugha; thiugha2
vocative	thiugh		tiugha
genitive		tighe	tiugha	tiugh
dative	tiugh; thiugh1	thiugh	tiugha; thiugha2
Comparative	níos tighe
Superlative	is tighe

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

Mutation

Mutated forms of tiugh

radical	lenition	eclipsis
tiugh	thiugh	dtiugh

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

References

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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish tiug (compare Irish tiubh, Manx çhiu), from Proto-Celtic *tegus, from Proto-Indo-European *tégus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʲʰu/
• (Uist, Barra) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃʰuh/

Adjective

tiugh (comparative tighe)

1. thick, dense

Derived terms

• is tighe fuil na bùrn

Mutation

Mutation of tiugh

radical	lenition
tiugh	thiugh

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

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “tiugh”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 tiug”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language