Thieg

Yola

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish Tadhg.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiːɡ/

Proper noun

Thieg

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Teague
   • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 94:

     Aar was Thieg, an' Joane, an lhaung Jauane,

     There was Thadee, and John, and long Joan,

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 72