drécht

See also: -drecht

Old Irish[edit]

MacBain derives this word from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to separate, split”),^[1] though it is unclear what suffixation would lead to it.

drécht n (genitive dréchta, nominative plural dréchta)

portion, part
- 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. 5^c3
  ɔ·ríctar huili genti ꝉ drécht caich ceníuil
  till all the Gentiles are saved, or a portion of every nation

Neuter u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	drécht^N	drécht^L	drécht^L, dréchta
Vocative	drécht^N	drécht^L	drécht
Accusative	drécht^N	drécht^L	drécht
Genitive	dréchto^H, dréchta^H	dréchto^N, dréchta^N	drécht^N
Dative	drécht^L	dréchtaib	dréchtaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

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

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