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Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
lacht
- inflection of lachen:
- second/third-person singular present indicative
- (archaic) plural imperative
German
Pronunciation
Verb
lacht
- inflection of lachen:
- third-person singular present
- second-person plural present
- plural imperative
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish lacht (“milk”), from Latin lac, lactis.
Pronunciation
Noun
lacht m (genitive singular lachta, nominative plural lachtanna)
- yield (of milk)
Declension
Synonyms
Derived terms
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “lacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 lacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Old Irish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin lac, presumably via Late Latin lactis.
Pronunciation
Noun
lacht m (genitive lachta)
- milk
Inflection
Masculine u-stem
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Singular
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Dual
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Plural
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Nominative
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lacht
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Vocative
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lacht
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Accusative
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lachtN
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Genitive
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lachtoH, lachtaH
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Dative
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lachtL
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Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
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Descendants
Mutation
Old Irish mutation
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Radical |
Lenition |
Nasalization
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lacht also llacht after a proclitic ending in a vowel
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lacht pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/
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unchanged
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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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References