gúasacht
Old Irish
Etymology
From gúas (“danger, peril”) + -acht
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɡuːa̯saxt]
Noun
gúasacht f
- peril
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 47d4–5
- Gigse⟨a⟩-sa .i. mo ṡoírad ar cech gúasacht todochidi.
- I will pray, that is, for my deliverance from every future peril.
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 47d4–5
Declension
| Feminine ā-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | gúasachtL | gúasachtL | gúasachtaH |
| Vocative | gúasachtL | gúasachtL | gúasachtaH |
| Accusative | gúasachtN | gúasachtL | gúasachtaH |
| Genitive | gúasachtaeH | gúasachtL | gúasachtN |
| Dative | gúasachtL | gúasachtaib | gúasachtaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| gúasacht | gúasacht pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/ | ngúasacht |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “gúasacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language