amadántacht

Irish

Alternative forms

• amadánacht, amadántaíocht

Etymology

From amadánta (“fatuous”) +‎ -acht (abstract suffix), possibly remodelled from Old Irish ammatánacht f (“folly”).

Noun

amadántacht f (genitive singular amadántachta)

1. (act of) fooling; foolishness, fatuousness

Declension

Declension of amadántacht (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative amadántacht vocative a amadántacht genitive amadántachta dative amadántacht forms with the definite article case singular nominative an amadántacht genitive na hamadántachta dative leis an amadántacht don amadántacht

Mutation

Mutated forms of amadántacht

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
amadántacht	n-amadántacht	hamadántacht	not applicable

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