cacht

• IPA^(key): /kɛʃt/

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cacht

1. inflection of cachen:
   1. third-person singular present
   2. second-person plural present
   3. plural imperative

From Old Irish cacht, from Proto-Celtic *kaxtos, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂ptós.

• IPA^(key): /kaxt̪ˠ/

cacht m (genitive singular cachta)

1. (literary) confinement, bondage
2. (literary) duress, hardship; privation

• faoi chacht (“enslaved”)
• cléir cachta m (“band of bondsmen”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Proto-Celtic *kaxtos, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂ptós.

• IPA^(key): /kaxt/

cacht m

1. person in bondage, slave
2. bond, fetter
3. captivity
4. duress

• Irish: cacht

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language