beaichte

Irish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish bechta.[3] By surface analysis, beacht +‎ -e.

Noun

beaichte f (genitive singular beaichte)

  1. precision, preciseness
Declension
Declension of beaichte (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative beaichte
vocative a bheaichte
genitive beaichte
dative beaichte
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an bheaichte
genitive na beaichte
dative leis an mbeaichte
don bheaichte

Further reading

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

beaichte

  1. inflection of beacht (“exact, precise”):
    1. genitive singular feminine
    2. comparative degree

Mutation

Mutated forms of beaichte
radical lenition eclipsis
beaichte bheaichte mbeaichte

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

References

  1. ^ “beachta”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 334, page 115
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 bechta”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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