aicearracht
Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish aithgerracht f (“shortening”), from aithgerr (“very short, very brief”, adjective). By surface analysis, aicearra + -acht.
Noun
editaicearracht f (genitive singular aicearrachta, nominative plural aicearrachtaí)
Declension
editDeclension of aicearracht
Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
edit- in aicearracht (“soon, without delay”, adverb)
Related terms
edit- aicearrach (“short”, adjective)
- aicearra m (“shortcut; abridgement”)
Mutation
editIrish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
aicearracht | n-aicearracht | haicearracht | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
edit- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aicearracht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aithgerracht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language