ionsaitheacht

Irish

Etymology

From ionsaigh (“advance upon, attack; proceed to, approach; set about, attempt; reach, attain; seek out”) +‎ -acht (abstract nominal suffix).

Noun

ionsaitheacht f (genitive singular ionsaitheachta)

1. (optics) incidence

Declension

Declension of ionsaitheacht (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative ionsaitheacht vocative a ionsaitheacht genitive ionsaitheachta dative ionsaitheacht forms with the definite article case singular nominative an ionsaitheacht genitive na hionsaitheachta dative leis an ionsaitheacht don ionsaitheacht

Related terms

• ionsaitheach (“incident”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of ionsaitheacht

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ionsaitheacht	n-ionsaitheacht	hionsaitheacht	not applicable

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