deatach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish detach.

Pronunciation
  • (Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈdʲat̪ˠəx/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈdʲat̪ˠa(x)/

Noun

deatach m (genitive singular deataigh)

  1. smoke
  2. vapour, steam
  3. (figuratively) occupied house

Declension
Declension of deatach

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative deatach
Vocative a dheataigh
Genitive deataigh
Dative deatach

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an deatach
Genitive an deataigh
Dative leis an deatach

don deatach

Derived terms
  • brat deataigh (“smoke-screen”)
  • deatachas m (“smokiness”)
  • deataigh (“smoke”, transitive verb)
  • deatúil (“smoky; vaporous”, adjective)

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

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish detach, a derivative of dé (“smoke”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈtʲɛht̪əx/

Noun

deatach f (genitive singular deataiche, plural deataichean)

  1. gas, smoke, vapour

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
deatachdheatach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  • Edward Dwelly (1911), “deatach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
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