iocht

See also: -íocht

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish icht (“kindness, clemency, trust, confidence”).

Noun

iocht f or m (genitive singular iochta) (literary)

1. kindness, clemency; pity, mercy
2. trust, confidence

Declension

Declension of iocht (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative iocht vocative a iocht genitive iochta dative iocht forms with the definite article case singular nominative an iocht genitive na hiochta dative leis an iocht don iocht

Alternative declension:

Declension of iocht (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative iocht vocative a iocht genitive iochta dative iocht forms with the definite article case singular nominative an t-iocht genitive an iochta dative leis an iocht don iocht

Derived terms

• iochtmhar, iochtúil (“kind, clement, merciful”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of iocht

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
iocht	n-iocht	hiocht	t-iocht

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern 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), “1 icht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language