locht

• IPA^(key): /lɔxt/

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locht

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

From Old Irish locht,^[1] from Proto-Celtic *loxtus

• IPA^(key): /l̪ˠɔxt̪ˠ/
• (Munster) IPA^(key): /l̪ˠuxt̪ˠ/ ~ /l̪ˠɔxt̪ˠ/ ~ /l̪ˠɞxt̪ˠ/^[2]

locht m (genitive singular lochta, nominative plural lochtanna)

1. fault, defect, blemish, flaw, imperfection

   Synonyms: éalang, fabht

2. abuse
3. blame

   Synonym: milleán

   Chuir sí an locht orm.

   She put the blame on me.

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “loċt”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 441
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “locht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Proto-Celtic *loxtus, from Proto-Indo-European *lok-, see also Proto-Germanic *lahaną (“to blame”).

• IPA^(key): [l͈oxt]

locht m (genitive lochta)

1. fault
2. blemish

• lochtaigid (“find fault with”, verb)

• Irish: locht
• Manx: loght
• Scottish Gaelic: lochd

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 locht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “locht”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN