íasacht

See also: iasacht

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiːa̯səxt/

Noun

íasacht m (genitive íasachto or íasachta)

1. a loan
   • c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, Corm. Y 690

     luid gilla Athairne do chuinc[h]idh íasachto

     Athairne’s servant went to ask for a loan

2. a thing which has been loaned or borrowed

Inflection

Masculine u-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	íasacht	íasachtL	íasachtae
vocative	íasacht	íasachtL	íasachtu
accusative	íasachtN	íasachtL	íasachtu
genitive	íasachtoH, íasachtaH	íasachto, íasachta	íasachtaeN
dative	íasachtL	íasachtaib	íasachtaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: iasacht
• Manx: eeasaght
• Scottish Gaelic: iasachd, iasad

Mutation

Mutation of íasacht

radical	lenition	nasalization
íasacht (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-íasacht

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

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “íasacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language