aicearracht

Irish

Alternative forms

• aichearracht, aithghiorracht

Etymology

From Old Irish aithgerracht f (“shortening”), from aithgerr (“very short, very brief”, adjective). By surface analysis, aicearra +‎ -acht.

Noun

aicearracht f (genitive singular aicearrachta, nominative plural aicearrachtaí)

1. shortness

Declension

Declension of aicearracht (third declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative aicearracht aicearrachtaí vocative a aicearracht a aicearrachtaí genitive aicearrachta aicearrachtaí dative aicearracht aicearrachtaí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an aicearracht na haicearrachtaí genitive na haicearrachta na n-aicearrachtaí dative leis an aicearracht don aicearracht leis na haicearrachtaí

Derived terms

• in aicearracht (“soon, without delay”, adverb)

Related terms

• aicearrach (“short”, adjective)
• aicearra m (“shortcut; abridgement”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of aicearracht

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aicearracht	n-aicearracht	haicearracht	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aicearracht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aithgerracht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language