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, published 2010, page 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/
• Homophone: tua

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”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “tuath”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 túath”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• IPA^(key): /t̪ʰuə(h)/, (Lewis) [t̪ʰʉø]^[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, túath.

tuath f

1. north

   Antonym: deas

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tuath

1. northern, north

• Edward Dwelly (1911), “tuath”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 túath”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “túaid, thúaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language