peacadh

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈpʲaku(ː)/

Noun

peacadh m (genitive singular peacaidh or peactha, nominative plural peacaidh or peacaí)

1. Superseded spelling of peaca (“sin”)., still reflecting the Mayo and Ulster pronunciation

Declension

As a first-declension noun:

Declension of peacadh (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative peacadh peacaidh vocative a pheacaidh a pheacadha genitive peacaidh peacadh dative peacadh peacaidh forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an peacadh na peacaidh genitive an pheacaidh na bpeacadh dative leis an bpeacadh don pheacadh leis na peacaidh

As a third-declension noun:

Declension of peacadh (third declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative peacadh peacaí vocative a pheacadh a pheacaí genitive peactha peacaí dative peacadh peacaí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an peacadh na peacaí genitive an pheactha na bpeacaí dative leis an bpeacadh don pheacadh leis na peacaí

Mutation

Mutated forms of peacadh

radical	lenition	eclipsis
peacadh	pheacadh	bpeacadh

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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish peccad, pecad, borrowed from Latin peccātum, from peccō (“I sin”).

Pronunciation

• (Lewis) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰɛʰkəɣ/
• (Barra, Skye) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰɛxkəɣ/, [ˈpʰæxkəɣ]

Noun

peacadh m (genitive singular peacaidh, plural peacaidhean)

1. (theology) sin

Related terms

• peacach
• peacaich

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “peacadh”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “pec(c)ad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language