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Irish
- sclábhacht, sclábhaidheacht, sclábhaigheacht, sclábhuidheachd, sclábhuidheacht, sclábhuigheachd, sclábhuigheacht, sclábhuíocht, sglábhaidheacht, sglábhaigheacht, sglábhuidheachd, sglábhuidheacht, sglábhuigheacht, sglábhuíocht (obsolete)
Etymology
From sclábhaí + -acht.
Pronunciation
Noun
sclábhaíocht f (genitive singular sclábhaíochta)
- slavery, servitude
- hard manual labor, slave labor, toil
- drudgery, donkey work
- Synonyms: crácamas, tiaráil
Declension
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Further reading
- “sclábhaíocht”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sclábuidecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “scláḃaiḋeaċt”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 611
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sclábhaíocht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 21