tegdais

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Old Irish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtʲeɣ.ðəsʲ/

Noun

tegdais f (genitive tegdaise or tegdassa, nominative plural tegdaissi)

house
Synonym: tech
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 105^b7
  Is ferr liumsa buith i nneuch as doiscairem hi tír Israhel oldaas buith i nneuch di techdaisib sainemlaib ⁊ sommaib inna bellondae.
  I would rather be in the meanest place in the land of Israel than in any of the splendid and wealthy houses of the Babylonians.
- c. 850-875, Turin Glosses and Scholia on St Mark, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 484–94, Tur. 14
  i.e. amal tegdais fora·tochar deg-lí anechtair ⁊ is fás a inchrud a mmedón. Is sam-sin ro·batar .i. amal mbís tegdis fás [a mm]edón ⁊ scópthe.
  i.e. like a house onto which good beauty is put on the outside and is empty of furniture from the inside. It is thus that they were, i.e. like a house that was empty and swept.

Inflection

Feminine ī-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	tegdais^L	tegdais^L	tegdaissi^H
Vocative	tegdais^L	tegdais^L	tegdaissi^H
Accusative	tegdais^N	tegdais^L	tegdaissi^H
Genitive	tegdaise^H	tegdaise^L	tegdaise^N
Dative	tegdais^L	techdaisib	techdaisib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Feminine i-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	tegdais	tegdais^L	tegdaissi^H
Vocative	tegdais	tegdais^L	tegdaissi^H
Accusative	tegdais^N	tegdais^L	tegdaissi^H
Genitive	tegdasso^H, tegdassa^H	tegdasso^H, tegdassa^H	tegdaisse^N
Dative	tegdais^L	tegdaissib	tegdaissib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Middle Irish: tegdais, tegdas
- Irish: teaghais

Mutation

Mutation of *tegdais*
radical	lenition	nasalization
tegdais	thegdais	tegdais pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/

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

Further reading

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

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