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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish collaidecht (“corporeality; carnality, sensuality”). By surface analysis, collaí + -acht.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɔl̪ˠiːxt/, /ˈkɔl̪ˠiəxt/
Noun
collaíocht f (genitive singular collaíochta)
- carnality, lust
- sexuality
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| collaíocht
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chollaíocht
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gcollaíocht
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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) “collaíocht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “colnaiḋeaċt”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 170
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “collaidecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language