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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish lenbaidecht f (“childishness; childish pursuits, childish play”), from lenbaide (“childish, puerile”, adjective). By surface analysis, leanbaí (“childlike, innocent; childish, infantile; puerile; doting”, adjective) + -acht (abstract suffix).
Noun
leanbaíocht f (genitive singular leanbaíochta)
- childhood
- childishness
- puerility
- dotage
- (ag ~) acting childishly; doting
Declension
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “leanbaíocht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “lenbaidecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language