ucht
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish ucht (“breast, bosom; bosom; lap; the breast of an animal”), from Proto-Indo-European *peg- (“breast”) (compare Latin pectus).
Pronunciation
- (Munster) IPA(key): /ʊxt̪ˠ/
- (Connacht) IPA(key): /ɔxt̪ˠ/
- (Ulster) IPA(key): /ʌxt̪ˠ/
Noun
ucht m (genitive singular uchta, nominative plural uchtanna)
- (anatomy) chest; breast, bosom
- lap
- breast, upper front; (front) strip, face
Declension
Declension of ucht
Third declension
Bare forms:
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Derived terms
- as ucht (“for the sake of, on account of, on behalf of, in return for”)
- in ucht (“facing, in face of”)
- le hucht (“in front of, before, in anticipation of, for the purpose of”)
- móruchtúil (“stout-hearted, courageous”)
- uchtach (“breastplate; pectoral; chest-protector, plastron; breast of hill, upward slope, rise”)
- uchtach (“pectoral”)
- uchtaigh (“adopt”, verb)
- uchtán (“load carried between arms and chest, armful; lapful; small upward slope, rise”)
- uchtbhalla, uchtbharr (“parapet”)
- uchtbhorrthóir (“chest-expander”)
- uchtdruilire (“breast-drill”)
- uchtleanbh (“adopted child”)
- uchtmhac (“adopted son”)
- uchtóg (“armful; small heap; rise (in ground); bump (in road)”)
- uchtphláta (“breastplate”)
- uchtráille (“breastwork”)
- uchtúil (“full-chested; courageous”)
Mutation
| Irish mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| ucht | n-ucht | hucht | t-ucht |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “ucht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “ucht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 59