Irish
Etymology
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Noun
ciontacht f (genitive singular ciontachta)
- guilt, guiltiness
Declension
Declension of ciontacht (third declension, no plural)
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- ciontach (“guilty”, adjective)
- ciontach m (“offender, transgressor; guilty person”)
- ciontaigh (“blame, accuse; convict; transgress, offend”, verb)
- ciontóir m (“offender”)
Mutation
Mutated forms of ciontacht
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lenition
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eclipsis
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chiontacht
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gciontacht
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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) “ciontacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “ciontacht”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “ciontacht”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025