ceacht

Irish

Etymology

Clipping of aiceacht, from Middle Irish aiccecht, from Old Irish aiccept, from Latin acceptum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /caxt̪ˠ/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /cæxt̪ˠ/

Noun

ceacht m or f (genitive singular ceachta, nominative plural ceachtanna)

1. lesson
2. recited passage, episode
3. exercise

Declension

Declension of ceacht (third declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative ceacht ceachtanna vocative a cheacht a cheachtanna genitive ceachta ceachtanna dative ceacht ceachtanna forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an ceacht na ceachtanna genitive an cheachta na gceachtanna dative leis an gceacht don cheacht leis na ceachtanna

Alternative declension

Declension of ceacht (third declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative ceacht ceachtanna vocative a cheacht a cheachtanna genitive ceachta ceachtanna dative ceacht ceachtanna forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an cheacht na ceachtanna genitive na ceachta na gceachtanna dative leis an gceacht don cheacht leis na ceachtanna

Mutation

Mutated forms of ceacht

radical	lenition	eclipsis
ceacht	cheacht	gceacht

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