ceárta

See also: cearta and ceartă

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish cerddchae, from cerd (“smith, artisan”).[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

ceárta f (genitive singular ceárta, nominative plural ceártaí) or
ceárta f (genitive singular ceártan, nominative plural ceártana) (Munster)

  1. forge (furnace or hearth where metals are heated)
  2. smithy (location where a smith works)
    Synonym: teach ceárta

Declension

Standard language:

Declension of ceárta (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative ceárta ceártaí
vocative a cheárta a cheártaí
genitive ceárta ceártaí
dative ceárta ceártaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an cheárta na ceártaí
genitive na ceárta na gceártaí
dative leis an gceárta
don cheárta 		leis na ceártaí

Munster dialect:

Declension of ceárta (fifth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative ceárta ceártana
vocative a cheárta a cheártana
genitive ceártan ceártana
dative ceártain ceártana
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an cheárta na ceártana
genitive na ceártan na gceártana
dative leis an gceártain
don cheártain 		leis na ceártana

Mutation

Mutated forms of ceárta
radical lenition eclipsis
ceárta cheárta gceárta

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

References

  1. ^ “ceárta”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cerdchae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Breatnach, Risteard B. (1947), The Irish of Ring, Co. Waterford: A Phonetic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, section 525, page 139
  4. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 171
  5. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 21, page 10

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