peacadh

Irish

peacadh m (genitive singular peacaidh or peactha, nominative plural peacaidh or peacaí)

superseded spelling of peaca (“sin”), still reflecting the Mayo and Ulster pronunciation

As a first-declension noun:

Declension of peacadh (first declension)

forms with the definite article
	singular	plural
nominative	an peacadh	na peacaidh
genitive	an pheacaidh	na bpeacadh
dative	leis an bpeacadh don pheacadh	leis na peacaidh

As a third-declension noun:

Declension of peacadh (third declension)

forms with the definite article
	singular	plural
nominative	an peacadh	na peacaí
genitive	an pheactha	na bpeacaí
dative	leis an bpeacadh don pheacadh	leis na peacaí

Mutated forms of *peacadh*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
peacadh	pheacadh	bpeacadh

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

^ Mhac an Fhailigh, Éamonn (1968) The Irish of Erris, Co. Mayo: A Phonemic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, section 255, page 58
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 4, page 5
^ Lucas, Leslie W. (1979) Grammar of Ros Goill Irish Co. Donegal (Studies in Irish Language and Literature, Department of Celtic, Q.U.B.; vol. 5), Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen’s University of Belfast, page 203

From Old Irish peccad, pecad,^[1] borrowed from Latin peccātum, from peccō (“I sin”).

peacadh m (genitive singular peacaidh, plural peacaidhean)

^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “pec(c)ad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap, page 57
^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1941) “The dialects of Skye and Ross-shire”, in A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, volume II, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap