uraiceacht

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish uraicecht, from Old Irish auraicept.[2] By surface analysis, ur- +‎ aiceacht.

Noun

uraiceacht m (genitive singular uraiceachta)

  1. primer (introductory textbook), first instruction
    Synonym: bunleabhar
  2. rudiments (fundamental principles or skills), elements (simplest or essential parts)
    Synonym: buntús
    uraiceacht léinn ― rudiments of learning

Declension

Declension of uraiceacht (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative uraiceacht
vocative a uraiceacht
genitive uraiceachta
dative uraiceacht
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an t-uraiceacht
genitive an uraiceachta
dative leis an uraiceacht
don uraiceacht

Mutation

Mutated forms of uraiceacht
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
uraiceacht n-uraiceacht huraiceacht t-uraiceacht

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

References

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

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