amadántacht
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Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From amadánta (“fatuous”) + -acht (abstract suffix), possibly remodelled from Old Irish ammatánacht f (“folly”).
Noun
[edit]amadántacht f (genitive singular amadántachta)
- (act of) fooling; foolishness, fatuousness
Declension
[edit]Declension of amadántacht
Bare forms (no plural for this noun):
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Forms with the definite article:
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Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
amadántacht | n-amadántacht | hamadántacht | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “amadántacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ammatánacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language