barúntacht

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish barúntacht (“baronetcy”). By surface analysis, barún (“baron”) +‎ -tacht.

Noun

barúntacht f (genitive singular barúntachta, nominative plural barúntachtaí)

1. barony

Declension

Declension of barúntacht

Third declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative barúntacht barúntachtaí Vocative a bharúntacht a bharúntachtaí Genitive barúntachta barúntachtaí Dative barúntacht barúntachtaí

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an bharúntacht na barúntachtaí Genitive na barúntachta na mbarúntachtaí Dative leis an mbarúntacht don bharúntacht leis na barúntachtaí

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
barúntacht	bharúntacht	mbarúntacht
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “barúntacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “barúntacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “barúntacht”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “barúntacht”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024