aspalacht

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish apstalacht.[1] By surface analysis, aspal +‎ -acht.

Noun

aspalacht f (genitive singular aspalachta)

  1. (religion) apostleship, apostolate

Declension

Declension of aspalacht (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative aspalacht
vocative a aspalacht
genitive aspalachta
dative aspalacht
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an aspalacht
genitive na haspalachta
dative leis an aspalacht
don aspalacht

Mutation

Mutated forms of aspalacht
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
aspalacht n-aspalacht haspalacht not applicable

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “apstalacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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