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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish túatae. By surface analysis, tuath + -ta.
Adjective
tuata (not comparable)
- lay (nonclergy; nonprofessional)
- secular (not specifically religious)
- temporal (of or relating to the material world)
Declension
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Singular
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Plural (m/f)
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| Positive
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Masculine
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Feminine
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(strong noun)
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(weak noun)
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| Nominative
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tuata
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thuata
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tuata;
thuata²
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| Vocative
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thuata
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tuata
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| Genitive
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tuata
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tuata
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tuata
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| Dative
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tuata;
thuata¹
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thuata
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tuata;
thuata²
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| Comparative
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(not comparable)
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| Superlative
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(not comparable)
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¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Derived terms
Noun
tuata m (genitive singular tuata, nominative plural tuataí)
- layperson (one who is not a cleric; one who is not intimately familiar with a given subject)
- (in the plural) laity
- rustic
- Synonym: tuathánach
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| tuata
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thuata
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dtuata
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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
- ^ “tuata”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “túatae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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