Críostúlacht

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish Crístamlacht (“Christianity”), from Crístamail. By surface analysis, Críostúil (“Christian; charitable, humane”, adjective) +‎ -acht (abstract suffix).

Noun

Críostúlacht f (genitive singular Críostúlachta)

1. Christianity; Christian charity

Declension

Declension of Críostúlacht (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative Críostúlacht vocative a Chríostúlacht genitive Críostúlachta dative Críostúlacht forms with the definite article case singular nominative an Chríostúlacht genitive na Críostúlachta dative leis an gCríostúlacht don Chríostúlacht

Synonyms

• (Christianity): Críostaíocht

Mutation

Mutated forms of Críostúlacht

radical	lenition	eclipsis
Críostúlacht	Chríostúlacht	gCríostúlacht

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “Críostúlacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “Crístamlacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language