aiteacht

Irish

From Old Irish aittecht (“act of returning”), from aith- (“re-”) + techt (“coming”). By surface analysis, ath- +‎ teacht.

aiteacht m (genitive singular aiteachta)

Declension of aiteacht (third declension, no plural)

forms with the definite article
	singular
nominative	an t-aiteacht
genitive	an aiteachta
dative	leis an aiteacht don aiteacht

From ait (“comical, queer”) +‎ -acht (abstract nominal suffix).

aiteacht f (genitive singular aiteachta)

Declension of aiteacht (third declension, no plural)

forms with the definite article
	singular
nominative	an aiteacht
genitive	na haiteachta
dative	leis an aiteacht don aiteacht

Mutated forms of *aiteacht*
radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aiteacht	n-aiteacht	haiteacht	not applicable

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

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aiteacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aittecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language