smacht

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smacht

1. inflection of smachten:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

From Old Irish smacht (“rule, control, punishment”),^[1] from Proto-Celtic *smaxtus, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)megʰ- (“to be able”), see also Ancient Greek μῆχος (mêkhos).

• IPA^(key): /sˠmˠɑxt̪ˠ/^[2], /sˠmˠaxt̪ˠ/^[3]

smacht m (genitive singular smachta, nominative plural smachta)

1. (literary) rule, regulation, ordinance
2. rule, dominion, sway; subjection
3. control, restraint, discipline

   Ní bhíonn an rath ach mar a mbíonn an smacht. (proverb)

   There can be no progress without discipline.

4. (literary) penalty, fine

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “smaċt”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 358
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “smacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Proto-Celtic *smaxtus, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)megʰ- (“to be able”), see also Ancient Greek μῆχος (mêkhos).

• IPA^(key): [smaxt]

smacht m (genitive smachta)

1. rule, institute, institution
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 26^a8

     Seiss i tempul amal do·n-essid Críst; ꝉ do·géntar aidchumtach tempuil less, et pridchibid smactu rechto fetarlicce, et gébtit Iudei i n-apid, et ɔ·scéra rect núíadnissi.

     He will sit in the temple as Christ sat; or rebuilding of the temple will be done by him, and he will preach the institutes of the law of the Old Testament, and the Jews will accept him as lord, and he will destroy the law of the New Testament.

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 27^a24

     Nachib·mided .i. nachib·berar i smachtu rechta fetarlicce, inna ndig et a mbíad, inna llíthu et a ssapati, act bad foirbthe far n‑iress.

     Let him not judge you, i.e. do not be borne into the institutions of the Law of the Old Testament, into their drink and their food, into their festivals and their sabbaths; but let your faith be perfect.

• Irish: smacht
• Scottish Gaelic: smachd

• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “smachd”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “smacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language