drécht

See also: -drecht

Old Irish

MacBain derives this word from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to separate, split”),^[1] though it is unclear what suffixation would lead to it.

drécht n (genitive dréchta, nominative plural dréchta)

Neuter u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	drécht^N	drécht^L	drécht^L, dréchta
Vocative	drécht^N	drécht^L	drécht
Accusative	drécht^N	drécht^L	drécht
Genitive	dréchto^H, dréchta^H	dréchto^N, dréchta^N	drécht^N
Dative	drécht^L	dréchtaib	dréchtaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 5^c3
ɔ·ríctar huili genti ꝉ drécht caich ceníuil
till all the Gentiles are saved, or a portion of every nation
c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 13^b12
Masu glé lib trá in precept ro·pridchus-sa .i. as·réracht Críst hó marbaib, cid dia léicid cundubairt for drécht úaib de resurrectione hominum?
If, then, what I have preached is clear to you, namely that Christ has risen from the dead, why do you pl leave doubt on a portion of you concerning the resurrection of humans?
(literally, “…the preaching that I have preached…”)

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
drécht	drécht pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/	ndrécht
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “drécht”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN, page dréacht