peacadh

Irish

Pronunciation

Noun

peacadh m (genitive singular peacaidh, nominative plural peacaidh)

  1. Ulster form of peaca (“sin”)

Declension
Declension of peacadh

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative peacadh peacaidh
Vocative a pheacaidh a pheacadha
Genitive peacaidh peacadh
Dative peacadh peacaidh

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an peacadh na peacaidh
Genitive an pheacaidh na bpeacadh
Dative leis an bpeacadh

don pheacadh

 leis na peacaidh

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
peacadh pheacadh bpeacadh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 5

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish peccad, pecad, borrowed from Latin peccātum, from peccō (“I sin”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈpʰɛxkəɣ/

Noun

peacadh m (genitive singular peacaidh, plural peacaidhean)

  1. (theology) sin

References
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “peacadh”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “pec(c)ad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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