fechtnach

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɸʲextnax]

Adjective

fechtnach

1. prosperous
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 134^d3

     Ɔ·riris-siu .i. ar·troídfe{a}-siu inna droch daíni, a Dǽ, dia n‑anduch, air is fechtnach a n‑andach mani erthroítar húa Día.

     You will bind, i.e. you will restrain the evil people, O God, from their iniquity, for their iniquity is prosperous if they are not restrained by God.

Declension

o/ā-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	fechtnach	fechtnach	fechtnach
Vocative	fechtnaig* fechtnach**
Accusative	fechtnach	fechtnaig
Genitive	fechtnaig	fechtnaige	fechtnaig
Dative	fechtnach	fechtnaig	fechtnach
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	fechtnaig	fechtnacha
Vocative	fechtnachu fechtnacha†
Accusative	fechtnachu fechtnacha†
Genitive	fechtnach
Dative	fechtnachaib
Notes	*modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative **modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative † not when substantivized

Descendants

• Irish: feachtnach

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
fechtnach	ḟechtnach	fechtnach pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fechtnach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language