éisteacht
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Irish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Irish étsecht, éstecht (“hearing”), verbal noun of éistid, éitsid (“to listen”, verb).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
éisteacht f (genitive singular éisteachta)
- verbal noun of éist
- hearing (sense, earshot)
- (law) hearing
- granting
- silence; patience, forbearance
Declension[edit]
Declension of éisteacht
Bare forms (no plural for this noun):
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms[edit]
- néaróg éisteachta f (“auditory nerve”)
Related terms[edit]
- éisteach (“attentive, heedful”, adj)
Mutation[edit]
Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
éisteacht | n-éisteacht | héisteacht | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading[edit]
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “éisteacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “étsecht, éstecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 85
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 61