drécht
See also: -drecht
Old Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dʲrʲeːxt/
Noun
drécht n (genitive dréchta, nominative plural dréchta)
- portion, part
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 5c3
- ɔ·ríctar huili genti ꝉ drécht caich ceníuil
- till all the Gentiles are saved, or a portion of every nation
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 5c3
Declension
| Neuter u-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | dréchtN | dréchtL | dréchtL, dréchta |
| Vocative | dréchtN | dréchtL | drécht |
| Accusative | dréchtN | dréchtL | drécht |
| Genitive | dréchtoH, dréchtaH | dréchtoN, dréchtaN | dréchtaeN |
| Dative | dréchtL | dréchtaib | dréchtaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
- Irish: dréacht
- >? Manx: traght
- Scottish Gaelic: dreuchd
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| drécht | drécht pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/ | ndrécht |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “drécht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language