dréacht

Irish

Alternative forms

• dréachd, dreucht (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Irish drécht.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʲɾʲeːxt̪ˠ/

Noun

dréacht m (genitive singular dréachta, nominative plural dréachtaí or dréachta)

1. draft (early version of a written work; preliminary sketch or outline; order for money to be paid)
2. composition (work of music, literature or art), piece (artistic creation); (specifically) a particular poem, song, tale, story etc.
3. tract (small booklet; brief treatise)
4. (literary) portion, part, division
5. (literary) number [with de ‘of’]

Declension

Declension of dréacht (third declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative dréacht dréachtaí vocative a dhréacht a dhréachtaí genitive dréachta dréachtaí dative dréacht dréachtaí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an dréacht na dréachtaí genitive an dréachta na ndréachtaí dative leis an dréacht don dréacht leis na dréachtaí

Derived terms

• dréacht molta
• dréachtach
• dréachtaigh
• dréachtchonradh
• dréachtín
• dréachtóir
• réamhdhréacht
• rédhréacht

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of dréacht

radical	lenition	eclipsis
dréacht	dhréacht	ndréacht

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• “dréacht”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “drécht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “dréaċt”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 259
• Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 87
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “dréacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN