Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish ríagaltacht (“religious profession; regularity, conformity with standard; regulating, government”). By surface analysis, rialta (“regular; bound by religious rule; habitual”) + -acht.
Noun
rialtacht f (genitive singular rialtachta)
- regularity; religious life
Declension
Declension of rialtacht (third declension, no plural)
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References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “rialtacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ríagaltacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language