graostacht

Irish

Etymology

From graosta (“lewd, obscene, filthy”) +‎ -acht.

Noun

graostacht f (genitive singular graostachta)

1. lewdness, obscenity, filthiness; bawdy talk, talking smut

Declension

Declension of graostacht (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative graostacht vocative a ghraostacht genitive graostachta dative graostacht forms with the definite article case singular nominative an ghraostacht genitive na graostachta dative leis an ngraostacht don ghraostacht

Mutation

Mutated forms of graostacht

radical	lenition	eclipsis
graostacht	ghraostacht	ngraostacht

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) “graostacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN