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‖ tuath Irish Hist.|ˈtuəh|
[Ir. tūath people, cognate with OE. þéod, Goth. þiuda, OTeut. *þeuđô, Indo-Eur. *teutā́; ME. thede, q.v.]
A ‘tribe’ or ‘people’ in Ireland; hence, the territory or district of a tribe, in which sense written in 16th c. toghe, toughe, q.v.
1873W. K. Sullivan in O'Curry's Anc. Irish I. Introd. 79 The term Tuath was..applied to the people occupying a district which had a complete political and legal administration, a chief or Rig, and could bring into the field a battalion of seven hundred men. The word was also applied however to a larger division, consisting of three or four, or even more Tuaths, called a Mór Tuath, or great Tuath,..associated together for certain legal and legislative purposes. 1877W. F. Skene Celtic Scotl. II. ii. x. 460 Before letters were introduced..each tuath, or tribe, had probably its own variety of the common speech. 1898J. Heron Celtic Ch. 14 A group of families from a common ancestry made a sept; a still larger group was called a clann..; while a tribe or tuath consisted of several of such clanns, septs, and families. Ibid. 16 There were in Ireland one hundred and eighty four tuaths or tribal territories. |