éacht
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Irish écht (“slaying, slaughter; slain person; exploit, prowess, deed of valour”), from Proto-Celtic *anxtu (“slaughter”), from Proto-Indo-European *n̥ḱtu, from the root *neḱ- (“to perish, disappear”).
Noun
[edit]éacht m (genitive singular éachta, nominative plural éachtaí)
Declension
[edit]Declension of éacht
Alternative forms
[edit]- éachta m
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]éacht f (genitive singular éachta, nominative plural éachtaí)
- Alternative form of iacht (“cry; sigh, groan; lament”)
Declension
[edit]Declension of éacht
Verb
[edit]éacht (present analytic éachtann, future analytic éachtfaidh, verbal noun éachtadh, past participle éachta)
- (intransitive) Alternative form of iacht (“cry; sigh, groan; lament”)
Conjugation
[edit]conjugation of éacht (first conjugation – A)
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡ dependent form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis (except an)
Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
éacht | n-éacht | héacht | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “éacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “achievement”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
- “exploit”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
- “feat”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “écht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *neḱ-
- Irish terms inherited from Old Irish
- Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Irish terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish masculine nouns
- Irish literary terms
- Irish third-declension nouns
- Irish feminine nouns
- Irish verbs
- Irish intransitive verbs
- Irish first-conjugation verbs of class A