cacht

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

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative cacht Vocative a chacht Genitive cachta Dative cacht

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an cacht Genitive an chachta Dative leis an gcacht don chacht

Derived terms

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

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cacht	chacht	gcacht
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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

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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

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Irish: cacht

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
cacht	chacht	cacht pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
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), “1 cacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language