tracht

See also: Tracht and trácht

Dutch

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɑxt

Verb

tracht

1. inflection of trachten:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *traxtus, and either borrowed from Latin tractus or otherwise a cognate of it. Cognate with Welsh traeth.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtraxt/

Noun

tracht m (genitive trachta)

1. beach, shore

Inflection

Masculine u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	tracht	trachtL	trachtae
Vocative	tracht	trachtL	trachtu
Accusative	trachtN	trachtL	trachtu
Genitive	trachtoH, trachtaH	trachto, trachta	trachtaeN
Dative	trachtL	trachtaib	trachtaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: tracht
  • Irish: trácht

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
tracht	thracht	tracht pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 trácht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language