Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish barúntacht (“baronetcy”). By surface analysis, barún (“baron”) + -tacht.
Noun
barúntacht f (genitive singular barúntachta, nominative plural barúntachtaí)
- barony
Declension
Declension of barúntacht (third declension)
| bare forms
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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barúntacht
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barúntachtaí
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| vocative
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a bharúntacht
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a bharúntachtaí
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| genitive
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barúntachta
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barúntachtaí
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| dative
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barúntacht
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barúntachtaí
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Mutation
Mutated forms of barúntacht
| radical
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lenition
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eclipsis
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| barúntacht
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bharúntacht
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mbarúntacht
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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.
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “barúntacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “barúntacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “barúntacht”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “barúntacht”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025