tech

See also: Tech., tech-, and -tech

English

tech (countable and uncountable, plural techs)

(informal) technology
(informal) technician
- 2014, Jeff Jacobson, Growth (page 23)
  A man dressed as a lab tech, his blue scrubs startlingly pale against the vivid red and black chaos, moved into sight from behind the SUV. He carried an assault rifle.
(informal) technique
(informal, used in titles) technical college
Greenville Technical College is informally known as Greenville Tech.

From Proto-Celtic *tegos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tégos (“cover, roof”), from *steg- (“to cover”); cognate with Ancient Greek τέγος (tégos).

tech n (genitive tige or taige, nominative plural tige or taige)

Neuter s-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	tech^N, teg	tech^N, teg	tige^L, taige^H
Vocative	tech^N, teg	tech^N, teg	tige^L, taige^H
Accusative	tech^N, teg	tech^N, teg	tige^L, taige^H
Genitive	tige^L, taige^H	tige, taige^H	tige^N, taige^H
Dative	tig^L, taig^L	tigib	tigib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
tech	thech	tech pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “tech”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, ISBN 9780901714299

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