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tuath

tuath noun: a tribe or group of people in Ireland, having a loose voluntary system of governance entered into through contracts by all members.

Noun

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.
    • 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 [...].2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 331

Forms of tuath

pluraltuaths
pluraltuatha

Origin of tuath

Borrowed from Old Irish túath.

Questions about tuath

What does tuath mean?
Tuath means a tribe or group of people in Ireland, having a loose voluntary system of governance entered into through contracts by all members.
What part of speech is tuath?
Tuath is a noun.
What is the plural of tuath?
The plural of tuath is tuaths.

Words near tuath in the dictionary

  1. Tuatapere
  2. tuatara
  3. tuataras
  4. tuatera
  5. tuateras
  6. tuath
  7. tuatha
  8. Tuatha Dé Danann
  9. tuaths
  10. tuatua
  11. tuatuas

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