tuath

Borrowed from Old Irish túath.

tuath (plural tuaths or tuatha)

1. (historical) A tribe or group of people in Ireland, having a loose voluntary system of governance entered into through contracts by all members.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 331:

     There was nothing fixed or enduring about many tuatha, and reflecting the itinerant character of much of Irish society, the Church developed the peculiar phenomenon of roving ecclesiastic families [...].

From Old Irish túath, from Proto-Celtic *toutā, from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂.

• IPA^(key): /t̪ˠuə/

tuath f (genitive singular tuaithe, nominative plural tuatha)

1. (historical) people, tribe
   1. country, territory
   2. petty kingdom; territorial unit (of ancient Ireland)
2. laity
3. rural districts, country (rural area), countryside

   Tá mo mháthair faoin tuath.

   My mother is in the country(side).

• fabhcún tuaithe (“gyrfalcon”)
• tuathánach (“countryman, rustic, peasant”)

• "tuath" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “1 túath”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /t̪ʰuə/[1]

From Old Irish túath, from Proto-Celtic *toutā, from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂.

tuath f (genitive singular tuatha, plural tuathan)

1. country people, folk
2. countryside
3. laity
4. peasantry
5. tenantry

• tuathanach (“farmer, agriculturalist, peasant; tenant; yeoman”)

From Old Irish túaid, túaith.

tuath f

1. north

• deas

tuath

1. northern, north

• Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “1 túath”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN
• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “túaid, thúaid”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN