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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish literdacht f (“booklearning, literature”), from literda (“literary, literal”, adjective). By surface analysis, liteartha (“literary; literate”) + -acht.
Noun
litearthacht f (genitive singular litearthachta)
- literariness
- literacy
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Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “litearthacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “literacy”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “literdacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language