feacht

Irish

Alternative forms

  • eacht[1]
  • feachd (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Irish fecht,[2] from Proto-Celtic *wextā.[3] Cognate with Welsh gwaith.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fʲaxt̪ˠ/

Noun

feacht m (genitive singular feachta, nominative plural feachtaí)

  1. ocean current
  2. time, occasion
    Synonym: uair
    an dara feacht ― the second time
  3. journey, expedition
    Synonym: turas

Declension

Declension of feacht (third declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative feacht feachtaí
vocative a fheacht a fheachtaí
genitive feachta feachtaí
dative feacht feachtaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an feacht na feachtaí
genitive an fheachta na bhfeachtaí
dative leis an bhfeacht
don fheacht 		leis na feachtaí

Derived terms

  • feachtas (“campaign”)
  • feacht n-aon (“at one time, once upon a time”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of feacht
radical lenition eclipsis
feacht fheacht bhfeacht

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

References

  1. ^ “feacht”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*wextā”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 419/420

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