tua cheatha

Irish

Etymology

Conflation of synonymous stua ceatha and tuar ceatha.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t̪ˠuə ˈçahə/

Noun

tua cheatha f (genitive singular tua ceatha, nominative plural tuanna ceatha)

rainbow
Synonym: bogha báistí

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
tua cheatha	thua cheatha	dtua cheatha
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tua cheatha”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 45

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