íasacht

See also: iasacht

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiːa̯səxt/

Noun

íasacht m (genitive íasachto or íasachta)

1. a loan
   • c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, Corm. Y 690

     luid gilla Athairne do chuinc[h]idh íasachto

     Athairne’s servant went to ask for a loan

2. a thing which has been loaned or borrowed

Inflection

Masculine u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	íasacht	íasachtL	íasachtae
Vocative	íasacht	íasachtL	íasachtu
Accusative	íasachtN	íasachtL	íasachtu
Genitive	íasachtoH, íasachtaH	íasachto, íasachta	íasachtaeN
Dative	íasachtL	íasachtaib	íasachtaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: iasacht
• Manx: eeasaght
• Scottish Gaelic: iasachd, iasad

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
íasacht (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-íasacht
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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