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Irish
Etymology
From amadánta (“fatuous”) + -acht (abstract suffix), possibly remodelled from Old Irish ammatánacht f (“folly”).
Noun
amadántacht f (genitive singular amadántachta)
- (act of) fooling; foolishness, fatuousness
Declension
Declension of amadántacht
Mutation
Irish mutation
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Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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amadántacht
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n-amadántacht
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hamadántacht
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not applicable
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “amadántacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ammatánacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language