tagut

Tashelhit

Etymology

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. Inherited from Medieval Tashelhit تَكُتْ (tagut, “clouds”).

Cognate with Central Atlas Tamazight ⵜⴰⴳⵯⵓⵜⵜ (tagʷutt, “fog”), Tarifit tayyut (“fog, mist”), and Senhaja de Srair ṯaggʷuṯ, ṯawweṯ (“fog”), Tachawit ayu (“fog”), Kabyle agu (“fog”), and Chenoua hawt (“fog”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taɡut/

Noun

tagut f (plural tagutin, Tifinagh spelling ⵜⴰⴳⵓⵜ, Arabic spelling تاڭوت)

1. fog

   Ignna ixba s tagut. ― the sky is covered with the fog.

2. cloud, clouds

   Synonym: amdlu

3. west, setting sun. sunset

   Lbabbur tsnal i tagut. ― the ship heads towards the sunset

Inflection

Inflection of tagut

	singular	plural
free state	tagut	tagutin
annexed state	tagut	tagutin

See also

• akal (“earth”)
• amdlu (“cloud”)
• ignna (“sky”)
• ljnnt (“heaven”)

References

• Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 4 t—ẓ (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/4) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 2393b

Veps

Etymology

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Postposition

tagut

1. due to, because of
2. as a consequence of
3. for, in response to, in return for

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “вследствие, за, из, по”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika