tiubh

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish tiug[2] (compare Scottish Gaelic tiugh, Manx çhiu), from Proto-Celtic *tegus, from Proto-Indo-European *tégus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

tiubh (genitive singular masculine tiubh, genitive singular feminine tibhe, plural tiubha, comparative tibhe or tiúcha)

  1. thick, dense, closely set
  2. fast

Declension
Declension of tiubh
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative tiubh thiubh tiubha;
thiubha²
Vocative thiubh tiubha
Genitive tibhe tiubha tiubh
Dative tiubh;
thiubh¹		 thiubh tiubha;
thiubha²
Comparative níos tibhe
Superlative is tibhe

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

  • Alternative comparative form: tiúcha (Cois Fharraige)

Noun

tiubh m (genitive singular tiubh)

  1. thick part; press, throng

Declension
Declension of tiubh

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative tiubh
Vocative a thiubh
Genitive tiubh
Dative tiubh

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an tiubh
Genitive an tiubh
Dative leis an tiubh

don tiubh

Verb

tiubh

  1. Alternative form of tiubhaigh (“thicken; concentrate”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tiubh thiubh dtiubh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “tiuġ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 737
  2. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 tiug”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 17
  4. Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 246
  5. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 19

Further reading
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tiubh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • Entries containing “tiubh” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
  • Entries containing “tiubh” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
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