acht
Alemannic German
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Alternative forms
- ocht, àcht
Etymology
From Old High German ahto, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu. Cognate with German acht, Dutch acht, English eight, Swedish åtta.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑxt/
Cimbrian
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑxt/
audio (Belgium) (file) audio (Netherlands) (file) - Hyphenation: acht
- Rhymes: -ɑxt
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch achte, acht, from Old Dutch ahto, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: agt
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch achte, from Old Dutch *ahta, from Proto-Germanic *ahtō.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: ag
Verb
acht
- first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of achten
- imperative of achten
Dutch Low Saxon
Etymology
From Old Saxon ahto, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu. Cognate to German Low German acht, German acht, Dutch acht.
German
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Cardinal : acht Ordinal : achte | ||
Etymology
From Old High German ahto, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw. Compare Dutch acht, English eight, Danish otte, Swedish åtta, Greek οκτώ (októ), Latin octō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [aχt]
audio (file)
Numeral
acht
- eight (numerical value represented by the Arabic numeral 8; or describing a set with eight elements)
Coordinate terms
- 100: hundert, einhundert
- 103: tausend, eintausend
- 104: zehntausend (Myriade)
- 106: Million (tausendmaltausend, tausendtausend)
- 109: Milliarde
- 1012: Billion
- 1015: Billiarde
- 1018: Trillion
- 1021: Trilliarde
- 1024: Quadrillion
- 1027: Quadrilliarde
- 1030: Quintillion
- 1033: Quintilliarde
- 1036: Sextillion
- 1039: Sextilliarde
- 1042: Septillion
- 1045: Septilliarde
- 1048: Oktillion
- 1051: Oktilliarde
- 1054: Nonillion
- 1057: Nonilliarde
- 1060: Dezillion
- 1063: Dezilliarde
- 1066: Undezillion
- 1069: Undezilliarde
- 1072: Duodezillion
- 1075: Duodezilliarde
- 1078: Tredezillion
- 1081: Tredezilliarde
- 1084: Quattuordezillion
- 1087: Quattuordezilliarde
…
- 10100: Googol
…
- 10120: Vigintillion
- 10123: Vigintilliarde
…
German Low German
Etymology
From Old Saxon ahto, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu. Cognate to Dutch Low Saxon acht, German acht, Dutch acht.
References
- Der neue SASS: Plattdeutsches Wörterbuch, Plattdeutsch - Hochdeutsch, Hochdeutsch - Plattdeutsch. Plattdeutsche Rechtschreibung, sixth revised edition (2011, →ISBN, Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster)
Hunsrik
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Cardinal : acht Ordinal : acht | ||
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /axt/
Irish
Declension
Third declension
Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
- achtachán m (“enactment”)
Etymology 3
Likely from etymology 2.
Declension
Third declension
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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Mutation
Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
acht | n-acht | hacht | t-acht |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- "acht" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “6 acht (‘decree, edict’)”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN
- C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “1 acht (‘but, except’)”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN
- C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “3 acht (‘stipulation, condition’)”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN
- C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “4 acht (‘doubt’)”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN
- Entries containing “acht” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “acht” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
Old Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /axt/
Etymology 1
From Proto-Celtic *extos (“except, but”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰsto- (“out”), from *h₁eǵʰs. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἐκτός (ektós, “outside”).
Alternative forms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
·acht
Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
·acht | unchanged | ·n-acht |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “1 acht (‘but, except’)”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN
Pennsylvania German
West Frisian
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Cardinal : acht | ||
Etymology
From Old Frisian achta, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /axt/
Further reading
- “acht (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Zealandic
Etymology
From Middle Dutch achte, acht, from Old Dutch ahto, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.