tagut

Tashelhit

تاڭوت (sense 1)

Etymology

Inherited from Medieval Tashelhit تَكُتْ (tagut, “clouds”), from Proto-Berber. Cognate with Tarifit tayyut (“fog, mist”), Senhaja de Srair, Nefusa, and Kabyle tagut (“fog”), Chenoua hawt (“fog”) and Tamahaq tagyayt (“fog”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taɡut/

Noun

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

2. fog
3. clouds
4. west
5. sea wind
6. horizon
7. sunset

   لبابور تسنال س تاڭوت. ― 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, 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]‎^[1], Petrozavodsk: Periodika