lacht

Dutch

Pronunciation

Audio (file)
Rhymes: -ɑxt
IPA^(key): /lɑxt/

Verb

lacht

second- and third-person singular present indicative of lachen
(archaic) plural imperative of lachen

German

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [laxt]

Verb

lacht

Third-person singular present of lachen.
Second-person plural present of lachen.
Imperative plural of lachen.

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish lacht (“milk”), from Latin lac, lactis.

Pronunciation

(Munster, Aran) IPA^(key): [l̪ˠɑxt̪ˠ]
(Connemara, Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): [l̪ˠaxt̪ˠ]

Noun

lacht m (genitive singular lachta, nominative plural lachtanna)

yield (of milk)

Declension

Declension of lacht

Third declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lacht	lachtanna
Vocative	a lacht	a lachtanna
Genitive	lachta	lachtanna
Dative	lacht	lachtanna

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an lacht	na lachtanna
Genitive	an lachta	na lachtanna
Dative	leis an lacht don lacht	leis na lachtanna

Synonyms

bleacht
bleán
bleánach
crúthach
táirgeacht
tál

Derived terms

lacht- (“lacto-”)
lachtach (“lactic, milky; tearful”)
lachtacht f (“lactation”)
lachtadh m (“lactation”)

References

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

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lac, lactis.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /l͈axt/

Noun

lacht m

milk

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Irish: lacht

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
lacht also llacht after a proclitic	lacht pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/	lacht also llacht after a proclitic
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

“1 lacht” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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