oidhreacht

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish eigrecht (compare Scottish Gaelic oighreachd, Manx eiraght), from eigre (“heir, inheritor, successor, descendant”).[2] By surface analysis, oidhre +‎ -acht.

Pronunciation

  • (Aran) IPA(key): /ˈəiɾʲiəxt̪ˠ/[3] (corresponding to the variant oidhríocht)

Noun

oidhreacht f (genitive singular oidhreachta, nominative plural oidhreachtaí)

  1. heritage
  2. heredity
    Synonym: dúchas
  3. inheritance

Declension

Declension of oidhreacht (third declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative oidhreacht oidhreachtaí
vocative a oidhreacht a oidhreachtaí
genitive oidhreachta oidhreachtaí
dative oidhreacht oidhreachtaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an oidhreacht na hoidhreachtaí
genitive na hoidhreachta na n-oidhreachtaí
dative leis an oidhreacht
don oidhreacht 		leis na hoidhreachtaí

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of oidhreacht
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
oidhreacht n-oidhreacht hoidhreacht 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. ^ “oidhreacht”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “eigrecht, oigrecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 5

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.