cacht

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɛʃt/

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Verb

cacht

1. inflection of cachen:
   1. third-person singular present
   2. second-person plural present
   3. plural imperative

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cacht, from Proto-Celtic *kaxtos, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂ptós.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaxt̪ˠ/

Noun

cacht m (genitive singular cachta)

1. (literary) confinement, bondage
2. (literary) duress, hardship; privation

Declension

Declension of cacht (third declension, no plural)

bare forms singular nominative cacht vocative a chacht genitive cachta dative cacht forms with the definite article singular nominative an cacht genitive an chachta dative leis an gcacht don chacht

Derived terms

• faoi chacht (“enslaved”)
• cléir cachta m (“band of bondsmen”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cacht

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cacht	chacht	gcacht

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kaxtos, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂ptós.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaxt/

Noun

cacht m

1. person in bondage, slave
2. bond, fetter
3. captivity
4. duress

Inflection

Masculine u-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	cacht	cachtL	cachtae
vocative	cacht	cachtL	cachtu
accusative	cachtN	cachtL	cachtu
genitive	cachtoH, cachtaH	cachto, cachta	cachtaeN
dative	cachtL	cachtaib	cachtaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: cacht

Mutation

Mutation of cacht

radical	lenition	nasalization
cacht	chacht	cacht pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language