maldacht
Old Irish
editEtymology
editFrom Latin maledictiō.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmaldacht f (genitive maldachtae or maldachtan, nominative plural maldachta)
- curse
- c. 850-875, Turin Glosses and Scholia on St Mark, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 484–94, Tur. 110c
- Ba bés leusom do·bertis dá boc leu dochum tempuil, ⁊ no·léicthe indala n‑aí fon díthrub co pecad in popuil, ⁊ do·bertis maldachta foir, ⁊ n⟨o⟩·oircthe didiu and ó popul tar cenn a pecthae ind aile.
- It was a custom with them that two he-goats were brought by them to the temple, and one of the two of them was let go to the wilderness with the sin of the people, and curses were put upon him, and thereupon the other was slain there by the people for their sins.
- c. 850-875, Turin Glosses and Scholia on St Mark, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 484–94, Tur. 110c
Declension
editFeminine ā-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | maldachtL | maldachtL | maldachtaH |
Vocative | maldachtL | maldachtL | maldachtaH |
Accusative | maldachtN | maldachtL | maldachtaH |
Genitive | maldachtaeH | maldachtL | maldachtN |
Dative | maldachtL | maldachtaib | maldachtaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Feminine n-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | maldacht | maldachtainL | maldachtain |
Vocative | maldacht | maldachtainL | maldachtnaH |
Accusative | maldachtainN | maldachtainL | maldachtnaH |
Genitive | maldachton, maldachtan | maldachton, maldachtanL | maldachton, maldachtanN |
Dative | maldachtainL, maldachtL | maldachtnaib | maldachtnaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
editMutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
maldacht also mmaldacht after a proclitic ending in a vowel |
maldacht pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mallacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language