leacht

• IPA^(key): /l̠ʲaxt̪ˠ/^[1]

From Old Irish lecht, from Latin lectus (“bed”).^[2]

leacht m (genitive singular leachta, nominative plural leachtanna)

1. (literary) grave (excavation in the earth as a place of burial), gravemound
2. monument, memorial (structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons)

• uaigh

• leachtach (“strewn with gravemounds”)
• leachtán (“gravemound”)

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “leaċt”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 639; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN

Back-formation from leachtach (“liquid”), reinforced by association with lacht, which primarily means “yield of milk” but can be used in reference to other liquids, especially tears.

leacht m (genitive singular leachta, nominative plural leachtanna)

1. (physics) liquid

• leachtacht (“liquidity”)