toiteach

Irish

Etymology

From toit (“smoke”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

toiteach (genitive singular masculine toitigh, genitive singular feminine toití, plural toiteacha, comparative toití)

1. smoky

Declension

Declension of toiteach

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	toiteach	thoiteach	toiteacha; thoiteacha²
Vocative	thoitigh		toiteacha
Genitive		toití	toiteacha	toiteach
Dative	toiteach; thoiteach¹	thoiteach; thoitigh (archaic)	toiteacha; thoiteacha²
Comparative	níos toití
Superlative	is toití

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

Synonyms

• toitiúil

Derived terms

• toiteachán (“smoke-hole, chimney”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
toiteach	thoiteach	dtoiteach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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