écht
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Celtic *anxtu, from the same root as éc (“death”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]écht n (genitive échta, nominative plural échta)
Inflection
[edit]| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | échtN | échtL | échtL, échta |
| vocative | échtN | échtL | écht |
| accusative | échtN | échtL | écht |
| genitive | échtoH, échtaH | échtoN, échtaN | échtN |
| dative | échtL | échtaib | échtaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| écht (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-écht |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*anku-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 37
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “écht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language