seascair
Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Irish sescar, sescair. Compare Scottish Gaelic seasgair.
Adjective edit
seascair (genitive singular masculine seascair, genitive singular feminine seascaire, plural seascaire, comparative seascaire)
Declension edit
Declension of seascair
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | seascair | sheascair | seascaire; sheascaire² | |
| Vocative | sheascair | seascaire | ||
| Genitive | seascaire | seascaire | seascair | |
| Dative | seascair; sheascair¹ |
sheascair | seascaire; sheascaire² | |
| Comparative | níos seascaire | |||
| Superlative | is seascaire | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Mutation edit
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| seascair | sheascair after an, tseascair |
not applicable |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “seascair”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “sescar, sescair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Entries containing “seascair” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “seascair” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.