tútach

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From tuata (“lay, secular”) +‎ -ach.

Pronunciation

Adjective

tútach (genitive singular masculine tútaigh, genitive singular feminine tútaí, plural tútacha, comparative tútaí)

  1. uncouth, crude, boorish, ungracious, rustic, gross
  2. clumsy, awkward
  3. mean, mean-spirited, churlish, ignoble
  4. rude, crude, primitive, coarse
  5. amateurish

Declension

Declension of tútach
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative tútach thútach tútacha;
thútacha²
Vocative thútaigh tútacha
Genitive tútaí tútacha tútach
Dative tútach;
thútach¹ 		thútach;
thútaigh (archaic) 		tútacha;
thútacha²
Comparative níos tútaí
Superlative is tútaí

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

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tútach thútach dtútach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ “tútach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy

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