liostacht
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish listacht (“tediousness, importunity, listlessness, sloth”). By surface analysis, liosta (“tedious, tiresome”) + -acht (abstract nominal suffix).
Declension
Declension of liostacht
Third declension
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Bare forms (no plural for this noun):
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Forms with the definite article:
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Related terms
- liostachán m (“tiresome, importunate, person”)
- liostachas m (“listlessness, languidness; lingering illness”)
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “liostacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “listacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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