croiniceacht

Irish

Alternative forms

• croinicíocht

Etymology

From Old Irish croinicecht, from croinic. By surface analysis, croinic (“chronicle”) +‎ -acht.

Noun

croiniceacht f (genitive singular croiniceachta)

1. (act of) chronicling

Declension

Declension of croiniceacht (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative croiniceacht vocative a chroiniceacht genitive croiniceachta dative croiniceacht forms with the definite article case singular nominative an chroiniceacht genitive na croiniceachta dative leis an gcroiniceacht don chroiniceacht

Related terms

• croiniceoir m croinicí m (“chronicler”)
• croinicigh (“chronicle”, verb)

Mutation

Mutated forms of croiniceacht

radical	lenition	eclipsis
croiniceacht	chroiniceacht	gcroiniceacht

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