iasacht

See also: íasacht

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish íasacht m (“loan”).

Noun

iasacht f or m (genitive singular iasachta, nominative plural iasachtaí)

1. loan
   1. lending, borrowing
   2. thing lent or borrowed
2. (linguistics) loanword

Declension

Declension of iasacht

Third declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative iasacht iasachtaí Vocative a iasacht a iasachtaí Genitive iasachta iasachtaí Dative iasacht iasachtaí

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an iasacht na hiasachtaí Genitive na hiasachta na n-iasachtaí Dative leis an iasacht don iasacht leis na hiasachtaí

Synonyms

• (loan): airleacan
• (loanword): focal iasachta

Derived terms

• iasachtach (“strange, foreign”)
• iasachtaí m (“borrower”)
• iasachtóir m (“lender”)
• ón iasacht (“from outside, from abroad”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
iasacht	n-iasacht	hiasacht	t-iasacht
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “iasacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN