gúasacht

Old Irish

Etymology

From gúas (“danger, peril”) +‎ -acht.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡuːa̯saxt]

Noun

gúasacht f

1. peril
   • 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. 47^d4–5

     Gigse⟨a⟩-sa .i. mo ṡoírad ar cech gúasacht todochidi.

     I will pray, that is, for my deliverance from every future peril.

Declension

Feminine ā-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	gúasachtL	gúasachtL	gúasachtaH
vocative	gúasachtL	gúasachtL	gúasachtaH
accusative	gúasachtN	gúasachtL	gúasachtaH
genitive	gúasachtaeH	gúasachtL	gúasachtN
dative	gúasachtL	gúasachtaib	gúasachtaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of gúasacht

radical	lenition	nasalization
gúasacht	gúasacht pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/	ngúasacht

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

Further reading

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