bantracht

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish bantrocht (“company of women, female retinue; womenfolk”).

Noun

bantracht f (genitive singular bantrachta)

1. womankind; womenfolk

Declension

Declension of bantracht (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative bantracht vocative a bhantracht genitive bantrachta dative bantracht forms with the definite article case singular nominative an bhantracht genitive na bantrachta dative leis an mbantracht don bhantracht

Mutation

Mutated forms of bantracht

radical	lenition	eclipsis
bantracht	bhantracht	mbantracht

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) “bantracht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “bantracht”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “bantracht”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025