See also: Acht, ächt, åcht, and -acht

Alemannic German edit

cardinal number
8 Previous: sibe
Next: nüün

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Old High German ahto, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu. Cognate with German acht, Dutch acht, English eight, Swedish åtta.

Pronunciation edit

Numeral edit

acht

  1. eight

Bavarian edit

Bavarian numbers (edit)
[a], [b], [c] ←  7 8 9  → [a], [b]
    Cardinal: acht, åcht, åchte

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Middle High German ahte, from Old High German ahto, from Proto-West Germanic *ahtō, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ɑxt/
    • (file)

Numeral edit

acht

  1. eight

Cimbrian edit

Numeral edit

acht

  1. attributive form of achte
    acht óarneight o'clock (literally, “eight hours”)

Czech edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old Czech acht, possibly from Middle High German āhte.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈaxt]
  • Hyphenation: acht

Noun edit

acht m inan

  1. (archaic) anathema
    Synonym: klatba

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

  • acht in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • acht in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch edit

 
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Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ɑxt/
  • (file)
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: acht
  • Rhymes: -ɑxt

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle Dutch achte, acht, from Old Dutch ahto, from Proto-West Germanic *ahtō, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

Numeral edit

Dutch numbers (edit)
80
 ←  7 8 9  → 
    Cardinal: acht
    Ordinal: achtste

acht

  1. eight
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
  • Afrikaans: agt, ag
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: akti
  • Jersey Dutch: āxt
  • Negerhollands: acht, agt, ak
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: akt
  • Sranan Tongo: acht

Etymology 2 edit

From Middle Dutch achte, from Old Dutch *ahta, from Proto-West Germanic *ahtu.

Noun edit

acht f (uncountable)

  1. attention, heed
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
  • Afrikaans: ag

Verb edit

acht

  1. inflection of achten:
    1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Etymology 3 edit

From Middle Dutch achte, from Old Dutch *āhta, from Proto-Germanic *anhtō.

Noun edit

acht f (uncountable)

  1. (historical, chiefly obsolete) banishment, ostracism
    Synonyms: ban, verbanning, vogelvrijverklaring
Usage notes edit
  • At least the compound rijksacht is still attestable in contemporary historical writing alongside rijksban.

Anagrams edit

Dutch Low Saxon edit

Etymology edit

From Old Saxon ahto, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu. Cognate to German Low German acht, German acht, Dutch acht.

Numeral edit

acht

  1. (in many (all?) dialects) eight (8)

German edit

German numbers (edit)
80
 ←  7 8 9  → 
    Cardinal: acht
    Ordinal: achte
    Sequence adverb: achtens
    Ordinal abbreviation: 8.
    Adverbial: achtmal
    Adverbial abbreviation: 8-mal
    Multiplier: achtfach
    Multiplier abbreviation: 8-fach
    Fractional: Achtel
    Polygon: Achteck
    Polygon abbreviation: 8-Eck
    Polygonal adjective: achteckig
    Polygonal adjective abbreviation: 8-eckig

Etymology edit

From Middle High German ahte, from Old High German ahto, from Proto-West Germanic *ahtō, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

Compare Dutch acht, English eight, Danish otte, Swedish åtta, Greek οκτώ (októ), Latin octō.

Pronunciation edit

Numeral edit

acht

  1. (cardinal number) eight (numerical value represented by the Arabic numeral 8; or describing a set with eight elements)

Coordinate terms edit

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

Further reading edit

  • acht” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • acht” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • acht” in Duden online
  •   acht on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de

German Low German edit

German Low German cardinal numbers
 <  7 8 9  > 
    Cardinal : acht
    Ordinal : acht

Etymology edit

From Middle Low German achte, from Old Saxon ahto. Cognate to Dutch Low Saxon acht, German acht, Dutch acht.

Numeral edit

acht

  1. (in many dialects, including East Pomeranian, Low Prussian) eight (8)

Coordinate terms edit

Numeral edit

acht

  1. (East Pomeranian in Brazil) eighth (8th)

References edit

  • Der neue SASS: Plattdeutsches Wörterbuch, Plattdeutsch - Hochdeutsch, Hochdeutsch - Plattdeutsch. Plattdeutsche Rechtschreibung, sixth revised edition (2011, →ISBN, Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster)
  • Gertjan Postma, A Contrastive Grammar of Brazilian Pomeranian (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today, vol. 248), 2019, p. 97 & 99

Hunsrik edit

Hunsrik numbers (edit)
80
 ←  7 8 9  → 
    Cardinal: acht
    Ordinal: acht
    Fractional: Achtel

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

Inherited from Central Franconian aacht, from Middle High German ahte, from Old High German ahto, from Proto-West Germanic *ahtō, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu.[1]

Cognate with German acht and Luxembourgish aacht.

Numeral edit

acht

  1. eight
    Sie hon acht Kinner.
    They have eight children.

Etymology 2 edit

Inherited from Middle High German ahtede, from Old High German ahtodo, from Proto-West Germanic *ahtudō, from Proto-Germanic *ahtudô.[1]

Cognate with German achte and Luxembourgish aacht.

Adjective edit

acht

  1. eighth
Declension edit
Declension of acht (see also Appendix:Hunsrik adjectives)
masculine feminine neuter plural
Weak inflection nominative acht acht acht achte
accusative achte acht acht achte
dative achte achte achte achte
Strong inflection nominative achter achte achtes achte
accusative achte achte achtes achte
dative achtem achter achtem achte

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 Piter Kehoma Boll (2021), “acht”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português [Riograndenser Hunsrickisch–Portuguese Dictionary] (in Portuguese), 3 edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 8

Irish edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle Irish acht, from Latin āctus.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

acht m (genitive singular achta, nominative plural achtanna)

  1. decree, enactment
  2. compact
  3. condition
Declension edit
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

From Old Irish acht.

Pronunciation edit

Conjunction edit

acht

  1. Obsolete spelling of ach (but)

Preposition edit

acht (plus nominative, triggers no mutation)

  1. Obsolete spelling of ach (except, but)

Adverb edit

acht

  1. Obsolete spelling of ach (but, only, merely)

Etymology 3 edit

Likely from etymology 2.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

acht m (genitive singular achta)

  1. doubt, uncertainty
Declension edit

Mutation edit

Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
acht n-acht hacht t-acht
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading edit

Middle Dutch edit

Pronunciation edit

Numeral edit

acht

  1. Alternative form of achte

Old Czech edit

Etymology edit

Possibly from borrowed from Middle High German āhte (compare German outlawry, sworn enmity).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

acht m inan

  1. anathema

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

Further reading edit

Old Irish edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Proto-Celtic *extos (except, but), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰsto- (out), from *h₁eǵʰs. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἐκτός (ektós, outside).

Alternative forms edit

Conjunction edit

acht

  1. but
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 7d10
      Mógi sidi uili do Día; acht do·rigénsat in descipuil dechor etarru et déu diib: is hed on ɔsecha-som hic.
      They are all servants to God; but the disciples had made a distinction between them and (made) gods of them; that is what he corrects here.
  2. provided (that) (followed by ro- and the subjunctive mood of the verb)
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 23b24
      Ní imned lim act rop Críst pridches et imme·ráda cách.
      It is not tribulation for me provided that it is Christ on whom everyone preaches and meditates.
  3. (followed by a nasalizing relative clause) except that
    • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 137b5
      Fa·didmed aicned, acht dond·ecmaiṅg anísiu.
      Nature would have allowed it, except that this happens.

For more quotations using this term, see Citations:acht.

Descendants edit

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb edit

·acht

  1. inflection of aigid:
    1. third-person singular preterite conjunct
    2. passive singular preterite conjunct

Mutation edit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
·acht unchanged ·n-acht
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading edit

Pennsylvania German edit

Pennsylvania German cardinal numbers
 <  7 8 9  > 
    Cardinal : acht
    Ordinal : acht
Pennsylvania German ordinal numbers
 <  7 8 9  > 
    Cardinal : acht
    Ordinal : acht

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle High German ahte, from Old High German ahto. Compare German acht, Dutch acht, English eight.

Numeral edit

acht

  1. eight

Etymology 2 edit

Compare German achte, Dutch achtste, English eighth.

Adjective edit

acht

  1. eighth

Numeral edit

acht

  1. eighth

West Frisian edit

West Frisian cardinal numbers
 <  7 8 9  > 
    Cardinal : acht
    Ordinal : achtste

Etymology edit

From Old Frisian achta, from Proto-West Germanic *ahtō, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

Pronunciation edit

Numeral edit

acht

  1. eight

Further reading edit

  • acht (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Noun edit

acht c (plural achten, diminutive achtsje)

  1. eight

Further reading edit

  • acht (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Zealandic edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Dutch achte, acht, from Old Dutch ahto, from Frankish and Proto-West Germanic *ahtō, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

Numeral edit

acht

  1. eight

Zipser German edit

Numeral edit

acht

  1. Alternative form of åcht