aiteacht

Irish

From Old Irish aittecht (“act of returning”), from aith- (“re-”) + techt (“coming”). By surface analysis, ath- +‎ teacht.

aiteacht m (genitive singular aiteachta)

Declension of aiteacht

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case	Singular
Nominative	an t-aiteacht
Genitive	an aiteachta
Dative	leis an aiteacht don aiteacht

From ait (“comical, queer”) +‎ -acht (abstract nominal suffix).

aiteacht f (genitive singular aiteachta)

Declension of aiteacht

Bare forms (no plural for this noun):

Case	Singular
Nominative	an aiteacht
Genitive	na haiteachta
Dative	leis an aiteacht don aiteacht

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aiteacht	n-aiteacht	haiteacht	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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