becht

See also: Becht

Middle Irish

Etymology

Apparently an archaic participle of Old Irish boingid (“to break, strike”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʲext/

Adjective

becht

1. exact, precise, accurate
2. sure, certain
3. complete, entire

Descendants

• Irish: beacht (“precise, exact”)

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
becht	becht pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/	mbecht
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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