bacart

Irish

Alternative forms

• bacard

Etymology

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Noun

bacart m (genitive singular bacairt, nominative plural bacairt)

1. try square

Declension

Declension of bacart (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative bacart bacairt vocative a bhacairt a bhacarta genitive bacairt bacart dative bacart bacairt forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an bacart na bacairt genitive an bhacairt na mbacart dative leis an mbacart don bhacart leis na bacairt

Derived terms

• crosbhacart (“T-square”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of bacart

radical	lenition	eclipsis
bacart	bhacart	mbacart

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bacart”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN