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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish rechtach.[1] By surface analysis, reacht + -ach.
Pronunciation
Adjective
reachtach (genitive singular masculine reachtaigh, genitive singular feminine reachtaí, plural reachtacha, not comparable)
- legislative
Declension
References
Further reading
- “reachtach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “reaċtaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 562
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “reachtach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN