amadántacht

Irish

Alternative forms

• amadánacht, amadántaíocht

Etymology

From amadánta (“fatuous”) +‎ -acht (abstract suffix), possibly remodelled from Old Irish ammatánacht f (“folly”).

Noun

amadántacht f (genitive singular amadántachta)

1. (act of) fooling; foolishness, fatuousness

Declension

Declension of amadántacht

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural for this noun): Case Singular Nominative amadántacht Vocative a amadántacht Genitive amadántachta Dative amadántacht

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an amadántacht Genitive na hamadántachta Dative leis an amadántacht don amadántacht

Mutation

Irish mutation
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

• 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