lacht

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• Rhymes: -ɑxt
• IPA^(key): /lɑxt/

lacht

1. inflection of lachen:
   1. second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. (archaic) plural imperative

• IPA^(key): [laxt]

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lacht

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

From Old Irish lacht (“milk”), from Latin lac, lactis.

• (Munster, Aran) IPA^(key): [l̪ˠɑxt̪ˠ]
• (Connemara, Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): [l̪ˠaxt̪ˠ]

lacht m (genitive singular lachta, nominative plural lachtanna)

1. yield (of milk)

• bleacht
• bleán
• bleánach
• crúthach
• táirgeacht
• tál

• lacht- (“lacto-”)
• lachtach (“lactic, milky; tearful”)
• lachtacht f (“lactation”)
• lachtadh m (“lactation”)

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

Borrowed from Latin lac, presumably via Late Latin lactis.

• IPA^(key): /l͈axt/

lacht m (genitive lachta)

1. milk

• Irish: lacht
• Scottish Gaelic: lac, lachd

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