riocht

See also: ríocht

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish richt (“form, guise”),[1] from Proto-Celtic *ɸrixtus (cognate with Welsh rhith), from Proto-Indo-European *prep-. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic riochd.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɾˠʊxt̪ˠ/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ɾˠɨ̞xt̪ˠ/[2]

Noun

riocht m (genitive singular reachta, nominative plural riochtaí)

  1. form, shape, guise
  2. state, condition, plight
  3. capacity, capability

Declension

Declension of riocht (third declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative riocht riochtaí
vocative a riocht a riochtaí
genitive reachta riochtaí
dative riocht riochtaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an riocht na riochtaí
genitive an reachta na riochtaí
dative leis an riocht
don riocht 		leis na riochtaí

Synonyms

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “richt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 39

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.