Tadhg

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Etymology

From Middle Irish Tadg (whence also Old Norse Taðkr), from the common noun tadg (“poet”),[1] from pre-Goidelic *tazgos, from Proto-Celtic *taskos (“badger”). Cognate with Manx Taig and with Gaulish names like Tasgetius, Tasciovanus, Moritasgus.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Tadhg m (genitive Thaidhg)

  1. a male given name from Old Irish, historically anglicized as Thaddeus or Timothy but etymologically unrelated to them.

Derived terms

Descendants

Mutation

Mutated forms of Tadhg
radical lenition eclipsis
Tadhg Thadhg dTadhg

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 tadg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 195, page 98
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 70, page 30

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