liostacht
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish listacht (“tediousness, importunity, listlessness, sloth”); synchronically, liosta (“slow, tedious; irksome, tiresome; persistent, importunate”) + -acht (abstract nominal suffix).
Noun
liostacht f (genitive singular liostachta)
Declension
Declension of liostacht
Bare forms (no plural for this noun):
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Forms with the definite article:
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Related terms
- liostachán m (“tiresome, importunate, person”)
- liostachas m (“listlessness, languidness; lingering illness”)
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “liostacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “listacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language