tuige

Dutch

Verb

tuige

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of tuigen

Anagrams

• geuit

Irish

Adverb

tuige

1. (Connacht) why (interrogative)

   Synonyms: (Ulster) cad chuige, (Munster) cad ina thaobh, (Connacht) cén fáth

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tuige”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Nashimoto, Kuninao (2020) “tuige”, in ニューエクスプレスプラス アイルランド語 [Nyūekusupuresu Purasu Airurando-go, New Express Irish] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, →ISBN, pages 17–19

Old Irish

Noun

tuige f

1. Alternative form of tugae
2. thatching, roofing material, straw

Inflection

Feminine iā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	tuigeL	tuigiL	tuigi
Vocative	tuigeL	tuigiL	tuigi
Accusative	tuigiN	tuigiL	tuigi
Genitive	tuige	tuigeL	tuigeN
Dative	tuigiL	tuigib	tuigib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: tuighe, tuí

References

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