Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish amaidecht (compare Scottish Gaelic amaideachd). By surface analysis, amaid (“fool”) + -acht.
Noun
amaideacht f (genitive singular amaideachta)
- idiocy
Declension
Declension of amaideacht (third declension, no plural)
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Mutation
Mutated forms of amaideacht
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eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| amaideacht
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n-amaideacht
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hamaideacht
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not applicable
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “amaideacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ammaitecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language