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Irish
Pronunciation
Noun
tigh m (genitive singular tí, nominative plural tithe)
- Alternative form of teach (“house”)
Noun
tigh
- dative singular of teach
Preposition
tigh (plus genitive, triggers no mutation directly, but definite noun phrases in the genitive are always lenited)
- at the house of; chez
- tigh múinteora ― at a teacher’s house
- tigh Bhriain ― at Brian’s
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| tigh
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thigh
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dtigh
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
Middle English
Noun
tigh
- Alternative form of teye (“chest, enclosure”)