- tachd
- choke, Irish tachdaim, Old Irish tachtad, angens. Stokes gives the root as tak and refers to it also Welsh tagu (and ystagu), choke, Cornish, Breton taga. Brugmann and Ascoli analyse tachd into to-acht, root angh, Latin ango, choke, Greek $$Ga$$'ghw, English anger. Root tak as in Latin tacere (Prellwitz).
Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. Alexander Gairm Publications. 1982.