acht
Alemannic German edit
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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
Bavarian edit
[a], [b], [c] ← 7 | 8 | 9 → [a], [b] |
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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
Numeral edit
acht
Cimbrian edit
Numeral edit
acht
- attributive form of achte
- acht óarn ― eight o'clock (literally, “eight hours”)
Czech edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Czech acht, possibly from Middle High German āhte.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
acht m inan
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
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
80 | ||
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Cardinal: acht Ordinal: achtste |
acht
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)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Afrikaans: ag
Verb edit
acht
- inflection of achten:
Etymology 3 edit
From Middle Dutch achte, from Old Dutch *āhta, from Proto-Germanic *anhtō.
Noun edit
acht f (uncountable)
- (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
- (in many (all?) dialects) eight (8)
German edit
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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 | ||
German Wikipedia article on 8 |
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
- (cardinal number) eight (numerical value represented by the Arabic numeral 8; or describing a set with eight elements)
Coordinate terms edit
- 100: hundert, einhundert
- 103: tausend, eintausend
- 104: zehntausend (Myriade)
- 106: Million (tausendmaltausend, tausendtausend)
- 109: Milliarde
- 1012: Billion
- 1015: Billiarde
- 1018: Trillion
- 1021: Trilliarde
- 1024: Quadrillion
- 1027: Quadrilliarde
- 1030: Quintillion
- 1033: Quintilliarde
- 1036: Sextillion
- 1039: Sextilliarde
- 1042: Septillion
- 1045: Septilliarde
- 1048: Oktillion
- 1051: Oktilliarde
- 1054: Nonillion
- 1057: Nonilliarde
- 1060: Dezillion
- 1063: Dezilliarde
- 1066: Undezillion
- 1069: Undezilliarde
- 1072: Duodezillion
- 1075: Duodezilliarde
- 1078: Tredezillion
- 1081: Tredezilliarde
- 1084: Quattuordezillion
- 1087: Quattuordezilliarde
…
- 10100: Googol
…
- 10120: Vigintillion
- 10123: Vigintilliarde
…
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
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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
- (in many dialects, including East Pomeranian, Low Prussian) eight (8)
Coordinate terms edit
Numeral edit
acht
- (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
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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
- 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
Declension edit
Declension of acht (see also Appendix:Hunsrik adjectives) | |||||
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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
- ↑ 1.0 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)
Declension edit
Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms edit
- achtachán m (“enactment”)
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
Conjunction edit
acht
Preposition edit
acht (plus nominative, triggers no mutation)
Adverb edit
acht
Etymology 3 edit
Likely from etymology 2.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
acht m (genitive singular achta)
Declension edit
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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Mutation edit
Irish mutation | |||
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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
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “acht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “6 acht (‘decree, edict’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 acht (‘but, except’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “3 acht (‘stipulation, condition’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “4 acht (‘doubt’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Entries containing “acht” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “acht” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
Middle Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Numeral edit
acht
- 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
Declension edit
singular | dual | plural | |
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nominative | acht | achty | achti, achtové |
genitive | achta, achtu | achtú | achtóv |
dative | achtu | achtoma | achtóm |
accusative | acht | achty | achty |
vocative | achte | achty | achti, achtové |
locative | achtě, achtu | achtú | achtiech |
instrumental | achtem | achtoma | achty |
See also Appendix:Old Czech nouns and Appendix:Old Czech pronunciation.
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Czech: acht
Further reading edit
- Jan Gebauer (1903–1916), “acht”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění
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
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- (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.
- 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
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
Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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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
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 acht (‘but, except’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Pennsylvania German edit
< 7 | 8 | 9 > |
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Cardinal : acht Ordinal : acht | ||
< 7 | 8 | 9 > |
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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
Etymology 2 edit
Compare German achte, Dutch achtste, English eighth.
Adjective edit
acht
Numeral edit
acht
West Frisian edit
< 7 | 8 | 9 > |
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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
Further reading edit
- “acht (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Noun edit
acht c (plural achten, diminutive achtsje)
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
Zipser German edit
Numeral edit
acht
- Alternative form of åcht