# tŷ
## Welsh
### Etymology

From Middle Welsh ty, from Proto-Brythonic *tɨɣ, from Proto-Celtic *tegos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg-.

### Pronunciation

* (North Wales) IPA: /tɨː/
* (South Wales) IPA: /tiː/
* Homophone: tu; (South Wales) ti
* Rhymes: -ɨː

### Noun

tŷ m (plural tai)
* house

#### Usage notes

In addition to meaning 'small house', tŷ bach also means 'toilet, restroom'. An alternative translation of 'small house' is tŷ bychan.

#### Derived terms

* abaty (“abbey”)
* adardy (“aviary”)
* addoldy (“house of worship”)
* archifdy (“record office”)
* arfdy (“armoury”)
* argraffdy (“printing house”)
* asiant tŷ (“estate agent, realtor”)
* bathdy (“mint”)
* beudy (“cowshed”)
* bragdy (“brewery”)
* brodordy (“priory, friary”)
* bwyty (“eatery”)
* cachdy (“privy”)
* cadw tŷ (“to keep house”)
* caeth i'r tŷ (“housebound”)
* carchardy (“prisonhouse”)
* cegindy (“cookshop”)
* clafdy (“infirmary”)
* clochdy (“bell tower”)
* clwyfdy (“hospital”)
* colomendy (“dovecote”)
* chwaraedy (“playhouse”)
* daeardy (“dungeon”)
* defeity, dafaty (“sheepfold”)
* deildy (“arbour”)
* deiliad tŷ (“householder”)
* deondy (“deanery”)
* elusendy (“almshouse”)
* ficerdy (“vicarage”)
* ffermdy (“farmhouse”)
* ffrierdy (“friary”)
* gody (“outhouse”)
* golchdy (“washhouse”)
* goleudy (“lighthouse”)
* gwallgofdy (“madhouse”)
* gwastraff tŷ (“household waste”)
* gweithdy (“workshop”)
* gwesty (“hotel”)
* gŵn tŷ (“dressing gown”)
* gwraig tŷ (“housewife”)
* hafoty (“summer abode in the uplands”)
* hogldy (“hovel”)
* labordy (“laboratory”)
* lladd-dy (“slaughterhouse, abattoir”)
* llaethdy (“dairy”)
* lleiandy (“nunnery”)
* lluesty (“tent”)
* llythyrdy (“post office”)
* maendy (“stone house”)
* marwdy (“mortuary, morgue”)
* masnachdy (“counter”)
* meddyg tŷ (“house officer”)
* modurdy (“garage”)
* morwyn tŷ (“housemaid”)
* mynachdy (“monastery”)
* nwyddau tŷ (“household goods”)
* pandy (“fulling mill”)
* pen tŷ (“roof”)
* penty (“penthouse”)
* perchen tŷ (“householder”)
* persondy (“parsonage”)
* popty (“oven; bakery”)
* puteindy (“whorehouse”)
* pwerdy (“power station; powerhouse”)
* rhandy (“annexe; apartment”)
* rheithordy (“rectory”)
* sbwriel tŷ (“domestic rubbish”)
* stordy (“storeroom”)
* symud tŷ (“to move house”)
* tafarndy (“public house”)
* tloty (“poorhouse, workhouse”)
* trysordy (“treasury”)
* tŷ ag ysbryd (“haunted house”)
* tŷ allan (“outbuilding, outhouse”)
* tŷ ar wahân (“detached house”)
* tŷ bach (“outhouse, toilet”)
* tŷ bwgan (“haunted house”)
* tŷ bwyta (“restaurant”)
* tŷ clwb (“clubhouse”)
* tŷ crwn (“roundhouse”)
* tŷ cwrdd (“meeting house, chapel”)
* tŷ cwrt (“courtyard house”)
* tŷ cwrw (“beer house”)
* tŷ cygor (“council house”)
* tŷ dòl (“doll's house”)
* tŷ eil (“aisled house”)
* Tŷ Glas (“Blue House”)
* tŷ gwydr (“greenhouse”)
* Tŷ Gwyn (“Whitehouse”)
* tŷ haf (“summerhouse”)
* tŷ hir (“long house”)
* tŷ injan (“engine house”)
* tŷ mawr (“workhouse”)
* tŷ opera (“opera house”)
* tŷ pâr (“semi-detached house”)
* tŷ parod (“prefabricated house, prefab”)
* tŷ pen rhes (“end of terrace”)
* tŷ pren (“wooden house, long built house”)
* tŷ ransh (“ranch house”)
* tŷ rhes (“terraced house”)
* tŷ sengl (“detached house”)
* tŷ semi (“semi-detached house”)
* tŷ teras (“terraced house”)
* tŷ to gwellt (“thatched house”)
* tŷ tŵr (“tower house”)
* Tŷ Uchaf (“Upper House”)
* tŷ unllawr (“bungalo”)
* tŷ unnos
* Tyddewi (“St Davids”)
* tyddyn (“farmhouse”)
* tylwyth (“family”)
* Tŷ'r Arglwyddi (“House of Lords”)
* Tŷ'r Cyffredin (“House of Commons”)
* ysbyty (“hospital”)
* ysgoldy (“schoolhouse”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “tŷ”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies