Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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feacht m (genitive singular feachta, nominative plural feachtaí)

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

Declension

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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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

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  1. ^ feacht”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, 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

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