ceacht

Irish

Etymology

Clipping of aiceacht, from Middle Irish aiccecht, from Old Irish aiccept, from Latin acceptum.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /caxt̪ˠ/
(Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /cæxt̪ˠ/

Noun

ceacht m or f (genitive singular ceachta, nominative plural ceachtanna)

Declension

Declension of ceacht

Third declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ceacht	ceachtanna
Vocative	a cheacht	a cheachtanna
Genitive	ceachta	ceachtanna
Dative	ceacht	ceachtanna

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an ceacht	na ceachtanna
Genitive	an cheachta	na gceachtanna
Dative	leis an gceacht don cheacht	leis na ceachtanna

Alternative declension

Declension of ceacht

Third declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ceacht	ceachtanna
Vocative	a cheacht	a cheachtanna
Genitive	ceachta	ceachtanna
Dative	ceacht	ceachtanna

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an cheacht	na ceachtanna
Genitive	na ceachta	na gceachtanna
Dative	leis an gceacht don cheacht	leis na ceachtanna

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
ceacht	cheacht	gceacht
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ceacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “aiccecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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