écht

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See also: echt, Echt, and -echt

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *anxtu, from the same root as éc (“death”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

écht n (genitive échta, nominative plural échta)

  1. slaying, slaughter, murder

Inflection

Neuter u-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative échtN échtL échtL, échta
Vocative échtN échtL écht
Accusative échtN échtL écht
Genitive échtoH, échtaH échtoN, échtaN échtN
Dative échtL échtaib échtaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Irish: éacht
  • Scottish Gaelic: euchd

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
écht
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) 		unchanged n-écht
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*anku-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 37

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