teaghais
Irish
Etymology
Old Irish tegdais, tegais, tegdas, techdais (“house, dwelling, mansion”). Related to tech (“house”).
Noun
teaghais f (genitive singular teaghaise, nominative plural teaghaisí)
- (literary) house, dwelling
- tabernacle, church
- room, apartment
- (ecclesiastical) see
Declension
Declension of teaghais
Second declension
Bare forms
| Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms
- teaghasán
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
teaghais | theaghais | dteaghais |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “teaghais”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language