Borrowed fromGerman acht ( “ eight ” ) .
acht
( chess ) Spoken by aplayer during amatch with one or morevisually impaired players to indicate the eighthrank inalgebraic notation . FromOld High German ahto Proto-Germanic *ahtōu German acht Dutch acht English eight Swedish åtta
acht
eight FromMiddle High German ahte Old High German ahto Proto-West Germanic *ahtō Proto-Germanic *ahtōu Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw
acht
eight acht
attributive form ofachte acht óarneight o'clockeight hoursInherited fromOld Czech acht Middle High German āhte
IPA (key ) : [ˈaxt] Hyphenation:acht acht m inan
( archaic ) anathema Synonym: klatba Declension ofacht (hard masculine inanimate )
FromMiddle Dutch achte acht Old Dutch ahto Proto-West Germanic *ahtō Proto-Germanic *ahtōu Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw
acht
eight Een spin heeftacht poten. ―A spider haseight legs. De film begint vanavond rondachten . ―The movie starts aroundeight tonight. Ze gingen met zijnachten op vakantie. ―Theeight of them went on vacation together. FromMiddle Dutch achte Old Dutch *ahta Proto-West Germanic *ahtu
acht f uncountable nodiminutive )
attention ,heed acht
inflection ofachten first / second / third-person singular present indicative imperative FromMiddle Dutch achte Old Dutch *āhta Proto-Germanic *anhtō
acht f uncountable nodiminutive )
( historical , chiefly obsolete ) banishment ,ostracism Synonyms: ban verbanning vogelvrijverklaring At least the compoundrijksacht rijksban FromOld Saxon ahto Proto-Germanic *ahtōu German Low German acht German acht Dutch acht
acht
( in many (all?) dialects ) eight (8)FromMiddle High German ahte Old High German ahto Proto-West Germanic *ahtō Proto-Germanic *ahtōu Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw
CompareDutch acht English eight Danish otte Swedish åtta Greek οκτώ ( októ ) ,Latin octō
acht
( cardinal number ) eight ( numerical value represented by the Arabic numeral 8; ordescribing a set with eight elements ) German cardinal numbers from 0 to 99
—0 —1 —2 —3 —4 —5 —6 —7 —8 —9 0— null eins ( before a noun ) ein zwei drei vier fünf sechs sieben acht neun 1— zehn elf zwölf dreizehn vierzehn fünfzehn sechzehn siebzehn achtzehn neunzehn 2— zwanzig einundzwanzig zweiundzwanzig dreiundzwanzig vierundzwanzig fünfundzwanzig sechsundzwanzig siebenundzwanzig achtundzwanzig neunundzwanzig 3— Germany, Austria:dreißig dreissig Germany, Austria:einunddreißig einunddreissig Germany, Austria:zweiunddreißig zweiunddreissig Germany, Austria:dreiunddreißig dreiunddreissig Germany, Austria:vierunddreißig vierunddreissig Germany, Austria:fünfunddreißig fünfunddreissig Germany, Austria:sechsunddreißig sechsunddreissig Germany, Austria:siebenunddreißig siebenunddreissig Germany, Austria:achtunddreißig achtunddreissig Germany, Austria:neununddreißig neununddreissig 4— vierzig einundvierzig zweiundvierzig dreiundvierzig vierundvierzig fünfundvierzig sechsundvierzig siebenundvierzig achtundvierzig neunundvierzig 5— fünfzig einundfünfzig zweiundfünfzig dreiundfünfzig vierundfünfzig fünfundfünfzig sechsundfünfzig siebenundfünfzig achtundfünfzig neunundfünfzig 6— sechzig einundsechzig zweiundsechzig dreiundsechzig vierundsechzig fünfundsechzig sechsundsechzig siebenundsechzig achtundsechzig neunundsechzig 7— siebzig einundsiebzig zweiundsiebzig dreiundsiebzig vierundsiebzig fünfundsiebzig sechsundsiebzig siebenundsiebzig achtundsiebzig neunundsiebzig 8— achtzig einundachtzig zweiundachtzig dreiundachtzig vierundachtzig fünfundachtzig sechsundachtzig siebenundachtzig achtundachtzig neunundachtzig 9— neunzig einundneunzig zweiundneunzig dreiundneunzig vierundneunzig fünfundneunzig sechsundneunzig siebenundneunzig achtundneunzig neunundneunzig
German cardinal numbers from 100 onward
“acht ” inDigitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache “acht ” in Uni Leipzig:Wortschatz-Lexikon “acht ” inDuden online acht Wikipediade FromMiddle Low German achte Old Saxon ahto Dutch Low Saxon acht German acht Dutch acht
acht
( in many dialects, including Eastern Pomeranian, Low Prussian ) eight (8)Cardinal numbers from 0 to 99
Cardinal numbers from 100 onward
acht
( Eastern Pomeranian in Brazil ) eighth (8th)Der neue SASS: Plattdeutsches Wörterbuch, Plattdeutsch - Hochdeutsch, Hochdeutsch - Plattdeutsch. Plattdeutsche Rechtschreibung , sixth revised edition (2011,→ISBN , Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster)Gertjan Postma,A Contrastive Grammar of Brazilian Pomeranian (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today , vol. 248), 2019, p. 97 & 99 Inherited fromCentral Franconian aacht Middle High German ahte Old High German ahto Proto-West Germanic *ahtō Proto-Germanic *ahtōu [ 1]
Cognate withGerman acht Luxembourgish aacht
acht
eight Sie honacht Kinner. They haveeight children. Inherited fromMiddle High German ahtede Old High German ahtodo Proto-West Germanic *ahtudō Proto-Germanic *ahtudô [ 1]
Cognate withGerman achte Luxembourgish aacht
acht
eighth FromMiddle Irish acht Latin āctus
acht m genitive singular achta nominative plural achtanna
decree ,enactment compact condition FromOld Irish acht
acht
obsolete spelling ofach ( “ but ” ) acht (plus nominative ,triggers no mutation )
obsolete spelling ofach ( “ except, but ” ) acht
obsolete spelling ofach ( “ but, only, merely ” ) Likely from etymology 2.
acht m genitive singular achta
doubt ,uncertainty Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977 ), “acht ”, inFoclóir Gaeilge–Béarla , Dublin: An Gúm,→ISBN Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019 ), “6 acht (‘decree, edict’) ”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019 ), “1 acht (‘but, except’) ”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019 ), “3 acht (‘stipulation, condition’) ”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019 ), “4 acht (‘doubt’) ”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959 ), “acht ”, inEnglish-Irish Dictionary , An Gúm“acht ”, inNew English-Irish Dictionary , Foras na Gaeilge,2013–2025 acht
alternative form ofachte acht
alternative form ofachte acht f
arrest of the king, ostracism, exclusion from the secular legal community reputation, rank, status, position in life legal deadline, court meeting in reference to the "king's feast", or the octave (eight-day period) during which it was celebrated Possibly fromborrowed fromMiddle High German āhte German outlawry, sworn enmity
acht m inan
anathema Declension ofacht (hard o-stem )
This table shows the most common forms around the 13th century.
FromProto-Celtic *extos ( “ except, but ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰsto- ( “ out ” ) , from*h₁eǵʰs Ancient Greek ἐκτός ( ektós ,“ outside ” ) .
acht
but c. 800 , Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published inThesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb.7d 10 Mógi sidi uili do Día;acht do·rigénsat in descipuil dechor etarruet déu diib: is hed on ɔsecha-somhic . They are all servants to God; but the disciples had made a distinction between them and (made) gods of them; that is what he corrects here. provided (that )( followed byro- ) c. 800 , Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published inThesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb.23b 24 Ní imned limact rop Críst pridches et imme·ráda cách. It is not tribulation for me provided that it is Christ on whom everyone preaches and meditates. ( followed by a nasalizing relative clause ) except that c. 845 , St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published inThesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 137b 5Fa·didmed aicned,acht dond·ecmaiṅg anísiu. Nature would have allowed it,except that this happens. For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:acht .
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
·acht
inflection ofaigid third-person singular preterite conjunct passive singular preterite conjunct Mutation of·acht radical lenition nasalization ·acht ( pronounced with/h/ inh -prothesis environments ) ·acht ·n-acht
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
Pennsylvania German [ edit ] FromMiddle High German ahte Old High German ahto German acht Dutch acht English eight
acht
eight CompareGerman achte Dutch achtste English eighth
acht
eighth acht
eighth FromOld Frisian achta Proto-West Germanic *ahtō Proto-Germanic *ahtōu Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw
acht
eight “acht (I) ”, inWurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch),2011 acht c plural achten diminutive achtsje
eight “acht (I) ”, inWurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch),2011 FromMiddle Dutch achte acht Old Dutch ahto Frankish Proto-West Germanic *ahtō Proto-Germanic *ahtōu Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw
acht
eight acht
alternative form ofåcht 
