reacht
English edit
Etymology edit
Verb edit
reacht
- (archaic) simple past and past participle of reach
Anagrams edit
Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish recht, from Proto-Celtic *rextus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-tus. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic reachd.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
reacht m (genitive singular reachta, nominative plural reachtanna)
- law, statute, ordinance
- authority, accepted rule
- dispensation (system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered)
Declension edit
Declension of reacht
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Derived terms edit
- bunreacht (“constitution”)
- reacht na dtréimhsí (“statute of limitations”)
- reachtach
- reachtaigh
- reachtóir
- reachtúil
- riail agus reacht (“law and order”)
- seanreacht (“old order”)
Further reading edit
- “reacht”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 recht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language