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German
Pronunciation
Verb
cacht
- inflection of cachen:
- third-person singular present
- second-person plural present
- plural imperative
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish cacht, from Proto-Celtic *kaxtos, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂ptós.
Pronunciation
Noun
cacht m (genitive singular cachta)
- (literary) confinement, bondage
- (literary) duress, hardship; privation
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| cacht
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chacht
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gcacht
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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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Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *kaxtos, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂ptós.
Pronunciation
Noun
cacht m
- person in bondage, slave
- bond, fetter
- captivity
- duress
Inflection
Descendants
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Lenition |
Nasalization
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| cacht
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chacht
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cacht
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
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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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Further reading