croiniceacht

Irish

Alternative forms

• croinicíocht

Etymology

From Old Irish croinicecht, from croinic. By surface analysis, croinic (“chronicle”) +‎ -acht.

Noun

croiniceacht f (genitive singular croiniceachta)

1. (act of) chronicling

Declension

Declension of croiniceacht

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural for this noun): Case Singular Nominative croiniceacht Vocative a chroiniceacht Genitive croiniceachta Dative croiniceacht

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an chroiniceacht Genitive na croiniceachta Dative leis an gcroiniceacht don chroiniceacht

Related terms

• croiniceoir m croinicí m (“chronicler”)
• croinicigh (“chronicle”, verb)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
croiniceacht	chroiniceacht	gcroiniceacht
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “croiniceacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “croinicecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language