gúasacht

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From gúas (danger, peril) +‎ -acht.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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gúasacht f

  1. peril
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 47d4–5
      Gigse⟨a⟩-sa .i. mo ṡoírad ar cech gúasacht todochidi.
      I will pray, that is, for my deliverance from every future peril.

Declension

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Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative gúasachtL gúasachtL gúasachtaH
Vocative gúasachtL gúasachtL gúasachtaH
Accusative gúasachtN gúasachtL gúasachtaH
Genitive gúasachtaeH gúasachtL gúasachtN
Dative gúasachtL gúasachtaib gúasachtaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
gúasacht gúasacht
pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/
ngúasacht
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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