rannaíocht

Irish

Alternative forms

  • rannaidheacht, rannaigheacht (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

From Middle Irish rannaigecht f (“stanza-making, versifying”).[2] By surface analysis, rann (“verse”) +‎ -íocht.

Noun

rannaíocht f (genitive singular rannaíochta)

  1. (poetry) versification; form of verse

Declension

Declension of rannaíocht (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative rannaíocht
vocative a rannaíocht
genitive rannaíochta
dative rannaíocht
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an rannaíocht
genitive na rannaíochta
dative leis an rannaíocht
don rannaíocht

Synonyms

References

  1. ^ “rannaíocht”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “rannaigecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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