marcaíocht

Irish

Alternative forms

  • marcaidheacht (superseded)
  • marcaigheachd, marcaigheacht, marcuidheachd, marcuidheacht, marcuigheachd, marcuigheacht, marcuíocht (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

From Middle Irish marcaidecht.[2] Cognate with Manx markiaght and Scottish Gaelic marcachd. By surface analysis, marcaigh +‎ -acht.

Noun

marcaíocht f (genitive singular marcaíochta)

  1. verbal noun of marcaigh (“to ride”)
  2. ride, lift (instance of being transported in a vehicle)
    Fuair mé marcaíocht le Mícheál.
    I got a ride with Michael.
  3. horsemanship
    Synonym: marcachas

Declension

Declension of marcaíocht (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative marcaíocht
vocative a mharcaíocht
genitive marcaíochta
dative marcaíocht
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an mharcaíocht
genitive na marcaíochta
dative leis an marcaíocht
don mharcaíocht

Mutation

Mutated forms of marcaíocht
radical lenition eclipsis
marcaíocht mharcaíocht not applicable

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

References

  1. ^ “marcaíocht”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “marcaigecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.