maldacht

Old Irish

maldacht f (genitive maldachtae or maldachtan, nominative plural maldachta)

curse
- c. 850-875, Turin Glosses and Scholia on St Mark, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 484–94, Tur. 110c
  Ba bés leusom do·bertis dá boc leu dochum tempuil, ⁊ no·léicthe indala n‑aí fon díthrub co pecad in popuil, ⁊ do·bertis maldachta foir, ⁊ n⟨o⟩·oircthe didiu and ó popul tar cenn a pecthae ind aile.
  It was a custom with them that two he-goats were brought by them to the temple, and one of the two of them was let go to the wilderness with the sin of the people, and curses were put upon him, and thereupon the other was slain there by the people for their sins.

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	maldacht^L	maldacht^L	maldachta^H
Vocative	maldacht^L	maldacht^L	maldachta^H
Accusative	maldacht^N	maldacht^L	maldachta^H
Genitive	maldachtae^H	maldacht^L	maldacht^N
Dative	maldacht^L	maldachtaib	maldachtaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Feminine n-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	maldacht	maldachtain^L	maldachtain
Vocative	maldacht	maldachtain^L	maldachtna^H
Accusative	maldachtain^N	maldachtain^L	maldachtna^H
Genitive	maldachton, maldachtan	maldachton, maldachtan^L	maldachton, maldachtan^N
Dative	maldachtain^L, maldacht^L	maldachtnaib	maldachtnaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Middle Irish: mallacht
- Irish: mallacht
- Manx: mollaght
- Scottish Gaelic: mallachd

Mutation of *maldacht*
radical	lenition	nasalization
maldacht also mmaldacht after a proclitic ending in a vowel	maldacht pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.