éisteacht

Irish

Alternative forms

  • éisteach, éisteachán
  • éisdeach, éisdeachd, éisdeacht, éisdiocht, éisteachd, éistiocht (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Irish étsecht, éstecht (“hearing”), verbal noun of in·túaisi (“to listen”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Munster, Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈeːʃtʲəxt̪ˠ/[2][3]
  • (Mayo) IPA(key): /ˈeʃtʲəxt̪ˠ/[4] (as if spelled eisteacht)
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈeːʃtʲa(x)t̪ˠ/, [ˈei̯ʃtʲa(x)t̪ˠ][5]

Noun

éisteacht f (genitive singular éisteachta, nominative plural éisteachtaí)

  1. (uncountable) verbal noun of éist
  2. (uncountable) hearing (sense; earshot)
  3. (law, countable) hearing

Declension

Declension of éisteacht (third declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative éisteacht éisteachtaí
vocative a éisteacht a éisteachtaí
genitive éisteachta éisteachtaí
dative éisteacht éisteachtaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an éisteacht na héisteachtaí
genitive na héisteachta na n-éisteachtaí
dative leis an éisteacht
don éisteacht 		leis na héisteachtaí

Derived terms

  • néaróg éisteachta f (“auditory nerve”)
  • éisteach (“attentive, heedful”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of éisteacht
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
éisteacht n-éisteacht héisteacht not applicable

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “étsecht, éstecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 261, page 133
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 85
  4. ^ de Búrca, Seán (1958) The Irish of Tourmakeady, Co. Mayo: A Phonemic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 264 (iii), page 49
  5. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 158, page 61

Further reading

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