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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish pec(c)ad, from Latin peccātum, from peccō (“I sin”).
Pronunciation
Noun
peaca m (genitive singular peaca, nominative plural peacaí)
- sin
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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| peaca
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pheaca
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bpeaca
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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) “peaca”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “peaca”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “peaca”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “pec(c)ad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language