cacht
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɛʃt/
Audio (file)
Verb
cacht
- inflection of cachen:
- third-person singular present
- second-person plural present
- plural imperative
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish cacht, from Proto-Celtic *kaxtos, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂ptós.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaxt̪ˠ/
Noun
cacht m (genitive singular cachta)
- (literary) confinement, bondage
- (literary) duress, hardship; privation
Declension
Declension of cacht
Third declension
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Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
- faoi chacht (“enslaved”)
- cléir cachta m (“band of bondsmen”)
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| cacht | chacht | gcacht |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 cacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *kaxtos, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂ptós.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaxt/
Inflection
| Masculine u-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | cacht | cachtL | cachtae |
| Vocative | cacht | cachtL | cachtu |
| Accusative | cachtN | cachtL | cachtu |
| Genitive | cachtoH, cachtaH | cachto, cachta | cachtaeN |
| Dative | cachtL | cachtaib | cachtaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
- Irish: cacht
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| cacht | chacht | cacht pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 cacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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