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Irish
Etymology
From fostaigh (“hire, employ”) + -acht.
Noun
fostaíocht f (genitive singular fostaíochta)
- employment
- livery (care of horses)
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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| fostaíocht
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fhostaíocht
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bhfostaíocht
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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) “fostaíocht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “fostaíocht”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “fostaíocht”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024