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Irish
Etymology
From -í + -acht.
Suffix
-íocht f
- suffix forming abstract nouns from adjectives
Usage notes
Rarely added to monomorphemic adjectives, more commonly to adjectives ending in -ánta.[1]
Declension
Derived terms
References
- ^ Doyle, Aidan (1992) Noun Derivation in Modern Irish: Selected Categories, Rules and Suffixes, Lublin: Redakcja Wydawnictw Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego, →ISBN, § 2.1.7, pages 40–43