tigh

English

Etymology

Perhaps akin to tight.

Noun

tigh (plural tighs)

(obsolete) A close or enclosure; a croft.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tigh in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

ghit, gith, ight, thig

Irish

Alternative forms

toigh

Pronunciation

(Munster) IPA^(key): /tʲɪɟ/
(Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /tʲiː/

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
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
tigh	thigh	dtigh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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