tracht

See also: Tracht and trácht

Dutch

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɑxt

Verb

tracht

1. inflection of trachten:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *traxtus, and either borrowed from Latin tractus or otherwise a cognate of it. Cognate with Welsh traeth.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtraxt/

Noun

tracht m (genitive trachta)

1. beach, shore

Inflection

Masculine u-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	tracht	trachtL	trachtae
vocative	tracht	trachtL	trachtu
accusative	trachtN	trachtL	trachtu
genitive	trachtoH, trachtaH	trachto, trachta	trachtaeN
dative	trachtL	trachtaib	trachtaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: tracht
  • Irish: trácht

Mutation

Mutation of tracht

radical	lenition	nasalization
tracht	thracht	tracht pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 trácht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Polish

Pronunciation

• (Greater Poland):
  • (Kuyavia) IPA^(key): /ˈtraxt/

Noun

tracht m inan

1. (Kuyavia) alternative form of trakt

Further reading

• Oskar Kolberg (1867) “tracht”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 277