uaisleacht

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish úaislecht.[2] By surface analysis, uaisle +‎ -acht. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic uaisleachd.

Pronunciation

Noun

uaisleacht f (genitive singular uaisleachta)

  1. nobility (quality of being noble)
  2. gentility (state of being elegant)

Declension

Declension of uaisleacht (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative uaisleacht
vocative a uaisleacht
genitive uaisleachta
dative uaisleacht
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an uaisleacht
genitive na huaisleachta
dative leis an uaisleacht
don uaisleacht

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of uaisleacht
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
uaisleacht n-uaisleacht huaisleacht not applicable

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

References

  1. ^ “uaisleacht”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “úaislecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 211, page 105

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