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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish udacht, audacht, from Old Irish aidacht, from Latin ēdictum.
Pronunciation
Noun
uacht f (genitive singular uachta, nominative plural uachtanna)
- (law) will, testament
- Synonym: tiomna
- pledge
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| uacht
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n-uacht
|
huacht
|
not applicable
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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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References
Further reading
- “uacht”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aidacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “uḋaċt”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 774
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “uacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN