smacht

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smacht

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of smachten
2. imperative of smachten

From Old Irish smacht (“rule, control, punishment”).

• (Munster, Aran) IPA^(key): /sˠmˠɑxt̪ˠ/
• (Connemara, Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /sˠmˠaxt̪ˠ/

smacht m (genitive singular smachta, nominative plural smachta)

1. (literary) rule, regulation, ordinance
2. rule, dominion, sway; subjection
3. control, restraint, discipline

   Ní bhíonn an rath ach mar a mbíonn an smacht.

   There can be no progress without discipline.

   (proverb)

4. (literary) penalty, fine

• ansmacht m (“tyranny”)
• ceannsmacht m (“mastery, the upper hand”)
• claonsmacht m (“unjust rule”)
• faoi smacht (“under control”)

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “smacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “smaċt”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 358
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “smacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Proto-Celtic *smaxtus, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)megʰ- (“to be able”), see also Ancient Greek μῆχος (mêkhos).

• IPA^(key): /smaxt/

smacht m (genitive smachta)

1. rule, institute, institution
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 27^a24

     Nachib·mided .i. nachib·berar i smachtu rechta fetarlicce, inna ndig et a mbíad, inna llíthu et a ssapati, act bad foirbthe far n‑iress.

     Let him not judge you, i.e. do not be borne into the institutions of the Law of the Old Testament, into their drink and their food, into their festivals and their sabbaths; but let your faith be perfect.

• Irish: smacht
• Scottish Gaelic: smachd

• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “smachd”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “smacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language