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feacht

Irish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Old Irish fecht,[2] from Proto-Celtic *wextā.[3] Cognate with Welsh gwaith.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

feacht m (genitive singular feachta, nominative plural feachtaí)

  1. ocean current
  2. time, occasion
    Synonym: uair
    an dara feacht ― the second time
  3. journey, expedition
    Synonym: turas

Declension edit

Declension of feacht

Third declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative feacht feachtaí
Vocative a fheacht a fheachtaí
Genitive feachta feachtaí
Dative feacht feachtaí

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an feacht na feachtaí
Genitive an fheachta na bhfeachtaí
Dative leis an bhfeacht

don fheacht

leis na feachtaí

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

Mutation edit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
feacht fheacht bhfeacht
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References edit

  1. ^ “feacht”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “fecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*wextā”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 419/420

Further reading edit

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