beaichte

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Irish bechta.[3] By surface analysis, beacht +‎ -e.

Noun

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beaichte f (genitive singular beaichte)

  1. precision, preciseness
Declension
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Further reading

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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

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beaichte

  1. inflection of beacht (exact, precise):
    1. genitive singular feminine
    2. comparative degree

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
beaichte bheaichte mbeaichte
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ beachta”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 334, page 115
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 bechta”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language