écht
Old Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Celtic *anxtu, from the same root as éc (“death”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
écht n (genitive échta, nominative plural échta)
Inflection edit
Neuter u-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | échtN | échtL | échtL, échta |
Vocative | échtN | échtL | écht |
Accusative | échtN | échtL | écht |
Genitive | échtoH, échtaH | échtoN, échtaN | échtN |
Dative | échtL | échtaib | échtaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants edit
Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
écht | unchanged | n-écht |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References edit
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*anku-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 37
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “écht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language