drécht
See also: -drecht
Old Irish edit
Etymology edit
MacBain derives this word from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to separate, split”),[1] though it is unclear what suffixation would lead to it.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
drécht n (genitive dréchta, nominative plural dréchta)
- portion, part
- 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. 5c3
- ɔ·ríctar huili genti ꝉ drécht caich ceníuil
- till all the Gentiles are saved, or a portion of every nation
- 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. 5c3
Declension edit
| Neuter u-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | dréchtN | dréchtL | dréchtL, dréchta |
| Vocative | dréchtN | dréchtL | drécht |
| Accusative | dréchtN | dréchtL | drécht |
| Genitive | dréchtoH, dréchtaH | dréchtoN, dréchtaN | dréchtN |
| Dative | dréchtL | dréchtaib | dréchtaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants edit
Mutation edit
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| drécht | drécht pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/ |
ndrécht |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References edit
- ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “drécht”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN, page dréacht
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “drécht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language