reacht

English

Etymology

reach +‎ -t

Verb

reacht

(archaic) simple past and past participle of reach

Anagrams

Cather, E chart, Thrace, archet, careth, charet, raceth, rachet, trache

Irish

Alternative forms

reachd (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Irish recht, from Proto-Celtic *rextus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-tus. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic reachd.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɾˠaxt̪ˠ/

Noun

reacht m (genitive singular reachta, nominative plural reachtanna)

law, statute, ordinance
authority, accepted rule
dispensation (system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered)

Declension

Declension of reacht (third declension)

bare forms
	singular	plural
nominative	reacht	reachtanna
vocative	a reacht	a reachtanna
genitive	reachta	reachtanna
dative	reacht	reachtanna

forms with the definite article
	singular	plural
nominative	an reacht	na reachtanna
genitive	an reachta	na reachtanna
dative	leis an reacht don reacht	leis na reachtanna

Derived terms

bunreacht (“constitution”)
reacht na dtréimhsí (“statute of limitations”)
reachtach
reachtaigh
reachtóir
reachtúil
riail agus reacht (“law and order”)
seanreacht (“old order”)

Further reading

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