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uaisleacht

Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish úaislecht.[2] By surface analysis, uaisle +‎ -acht. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic uaisleachd.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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uaisleacht f (genitive singular uaisleachta)

  1. nobility (quality of being noble)
  2. gentility (state of being elegant)

Declension

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Declension of uaisleacht

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural for this noun):

Case Singular
Nominative uaisleacht
Vocative a uaisleacht
Genitive uaisleachta
Dative uaisleacht

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an uaisleacht
Genitive na huaisleachta
Dative leis an uaisleacht

don uaisleacht

Derived terms

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Mutation

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

References

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  1. ^ “uaisleacht”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “úaislecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 211, page 105

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