tuath
noun
tuath is a noun meaning “A tribe or group of people in Ireland, having a loose voluntary system of governance entered into through contracts by all members” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-U-A-T-H, and it appears about once in every 89 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of tuath is tuaths or tuatha.
What does tuath mean?
noun
- 1
A tribe or group of people in Ireland, having a loose voluntary system of governance entered into through contracts by all members.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of tuath
- tuaths plural
- tuatha plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is tuath?
Tuath appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does tuath come from?
Borrowed from Old Irish túath.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).