íasacht

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Old Irish

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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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

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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

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

Mutation

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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

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