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Etymology
From tuig.
Noun
toig
- year
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Etymology
From Middle Irish tuicid, from Old Irish ·tucci, prototonic form of do·ucai (“to understand”), from Proto-Celtic *unketi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁unékti, *h₁unkénti (“to get used to, learn”, nasal infix present) from the root *h₁ewk-. Cognate with Lithuanian jùnkti (“to get used to”) and Armenian ուսանել (usanel, “to learn”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
Verb
toig (past hoig, verbal noun toiggal, past participle toiggit)
- understand, comprehend
- realize, construe, figure
Mutation
References
- ^ Schumacher, Stefan, Schulze-Thulin, Britta (2004) “Urkelt. *-u-n-k-e/o- 'verstehen'”, in Die keltischen Primärverben: ein vergleichendes, etymologisches und morphologisches Lexikon [The Celtic Primary Verbs: A comparative, etymological and morphological lexicon] (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft; 110) (in German), Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, →ISBN, page 653
- ^ Vendryes, Joseph (1959–96) “ucc-”, in Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume T U, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, page U-13
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