feacht

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word feacht. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word feacht, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say feacht in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word feacht you have here. The definition of the word feacht will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition offeacht, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish fecht, from Proto-Celtic *wextā. Cognate with Welsh gwaith.

Pronunciation

Noun

feacht m (genitive singular feachta, nominative plural feachtaí)

  1. ocean current
  2. time, occasion
    Synonym: uair
    an dara feacht ― the second time
  3. journey, expedition
    Synonym: turas

Declension

Declension of feacht

Third declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative feacht feachtaí
Vocative a fheacht a fheachtaí
Genitive feachta feachtaí
Dative feacht feachtaí

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an feacht na feachtaí
Genitive an fheachta na bhfeachtaí
Dative leis an bhfeacht

don fheacht

leis na feachtaí

Derived terms

Related terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
feacht fheacht bhfeacht
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ “feacht”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “fecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*wextā”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 419/420

Further reading

Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia