taigh

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish taige (compare Manx thie), a form of Old Irish tech, teg (compare modern Irish teach, tigh), from Proto-Celtic *tegos, from Proto-Indo-European *tegos (“cover, roof”).

Pronunciation

Noun

taigh m (genitive singular taighe, plural taighean)

  1. house, dwelling
    Tha Seumas anns an taigh. ― James is in the house.

Usage notes

  • Often used in compounds.
  • Also used in the expression aig an taigh with the meaning at home:
    An robh i aig an taigh a h-uile latha? ― Was she at home all day?

Declension

Declension of taigh (class IIc masculine noun)
indefinite
singular plural
nominative taigh taighean
genitive taighe thaighean
dative taigh taighean; taighibh✝
definite
singular plural
nominative (an) taigh (na) taighean
genitive (an) taighe (nan) taighean
dative (an) taigh (na) taighean; taighibh✝
vocative thaigh thaighean

✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of taigh
radical lenition
taigh thaigh

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

References

  1. ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
  2. ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  3. ^ Roy Wentworth (2003) Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN

Further reading

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