amaideacht
Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Middle Irish amaidecht (compare Scottish Gaelic amaideachd). By surface analysis, amaid (“fool”) + -acht.
Noun
editamaideacht f (genitive singular amaideachta)
Declension
editDeclension of amaideacht
Bare forms (no plural for this noun):
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Forms with the definite article:
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Related terms
edit- amadánta (“fatuous”, adjective)
- amadántacht f (“fooling, foolishness”)
- amadán m, amaid f (“fool”)
- amaideach (“foolish”, adjective)
Mutation
editIrish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
amaideacht | n-amaideacht | hamaideacht | 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) “amaideacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ammaitecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language