cacht

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cacht, from Proto-Celtic *kaxtos, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂ptós.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kaxt̪ˠ/

Noun

cacht m (genitive singular cachta)

  1. (literary) confinement, bondage
  2. (literary) duress, hardship; privation

Declension
Declension of cacht

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative cacht
Vocative a chacht
Genitive cachta
Dative cacht

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an cacht
Genitive an chachta
Dative leis an gcacht

don chacht

Derived terms
  • cléir cachta m (“band of bondsmen”)
  • faoi chacht (“enslaved”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cacht chacht gcacht
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • "cacht" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “1 cacht” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kaxtos, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂ptós.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kaxt/

Noun

cacht m

  1. person in bondage, slave
  2. bond, fetter
  3. captivity
  4. duress

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
cacht chacht cacht
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • “1 cacht” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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