bardacht

Irish

Alternative forms

• bárdacht (obsolete)

Etymology

From barda (“garrison; guard; ward”) +‎ -acht (abstract nominal suffix).

Noun

bardacht f (genitive singular bardachta)

1. wardenship, guardianship, protection
2. act of guarding, garrisoning

Declension

Declension of bardacht (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative bardacht vocative a bhardacht genitive bardachta dative bardacht forms with the definite article case singular nominative an bhardacht genitive na bardachta dative leis an mbardacht don bhardacht

Mutation

Mutated forms of bardacht

radical	lenition	eclipsis
bardacht	bhardacht	mbardacht

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