bleacht

English

Verb

bleacht

1. (obsolete) simple past and past participle of bleach

Anagrams

• Bachtel

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish blicht, from Old Irish mlicht, from Proto-Celtic *mlixtus (compare Welsh blith), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ml̥ǵtu-, from *h₂melǵ- (compare English milk, Latin mulgeō (“to milk”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʲlʲaxt̪ˠ/

Noun

bleacht m (genitive singular bleachta)

1. milk, milk yield

Declension

Declension of bleacht (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative bleacht vocative a bhleacht genitive bleachta dative bleacht forms with the definite article case singular nominative an bleacht genitive an bhleachta dative leis an mbleacht don bhleacht

Synonyms

• bleán
• bleánach
• crúthach
• lacht
• táirgeacht
• tál

Adjective

bleacht (genitive singular feminine bleachta, plural bleachta)

1. milch
2. copious, abundant

Declension

Declension of bleacht

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	bleacht	bhleacht	bleachta; bhleachta2
vocative	bhleacht		bleachta
genitive		bleachta	bleachta	bleacht
dative	bleacht; bhleacht1	bhleacht	bleachta; bhleachta2
Comparative	níos bleachta
Superlative	is bleachta

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Mutated forms of bleacht

radical	lenition	eclipsis
bleacht	bhleacht	mbleacht

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bleacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 blicht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language