barúntacht

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish barúntacht (“baronetcy”). By surface analysis, barún (“baron”) +‎ -tacht.

Noun

barúntacht f (genitive singular barúntachta, nominative plural barúntachtaí)

1. barony

Declension

Declension of barúntacht (third declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative barúntacht barúntachtaí vocative a bharúntacht a bharúntachtaí genitive barúntachta barúntachtaí dative barúntacht barúntachtaí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an bharúntacht na barúntachtaí genitive na barúntachta na mbarúntachtaí dative leis an mbarúntacht don bharúntacht leis na barúntachtaí

Mutation

Mutated forms of barúntacht

radical	lenition	eclipsis
barúntacht	bharúntacht	mbarúntacht

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) “barúntacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “barúntacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “barúntacht”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “barúntacht”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024