tugae

Old Irish

Alternative forms

tuige

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *togyā. Cognate with Welsh to, Breton to, and Celtiberian togia

Noun

tugae f

verbal noun of tuigithir: covering, cover
thatching

Inflection

Feminine iā-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	tugae^L	tugai^L	tugai
vocative	tugae^L	tugai^L	tugai
accusative	tugai^N	tugai^L	tugai
genitive	tugae	tugae^L	tugae^N
dative	tugai^L	tugaib	tugaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

^H = triggers aspiration
^L = triggers lenition
^N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

tuigithir (denominative)
- in·tuigethar

Descendants

Middle Irish: tuga
- Irish: tuí (“thatch”)
- Scottish Gaelic: tugha (“thatch”)
- Manx: thoo, too

See also

tuigen (“mantle, cloak”)

References

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tugae, tuige”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language