blastacht

Irish

Etymology

From blasta (“tasty”, adjective) +‎ -acht (abstract nominal suffix).

Noun

blastacht f (genitive singular blastachta)

1. tastiness, flavour, relish, savouriness, spiciness

Declension

Declension of blastacht (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative blastacht vocative a bhlastacht genitive blastachta dative blastacht forms with the definite article case singular nominative an bhlastacht genitive na blastachta dative leis an mblastacht don bhlastacht

Related terms

• dea-bhlastacht (“palatability”)
• so-bhlastacht (“tastiness”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of blastacht

radical	lenition	eclipsis
blastacht	bhlastacht	mblastacht

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