seoltóireacht

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish séoltóracht. By surface analysis, seoltóir +‎ -acht.

Noun

seoltóireacht f (genitive singular seoltóireachta)

1. sailing

   Tá eolas ar sheoltóireacht aici.

   She knows how to sail.

Declension

Declension of seoltóireacht

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural for this noun): Case Singular Nominative seoltóireacht Vocative a sheoltóireacht Genitive seoltóireachta Dative seoltóireacht

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an tseoltóireacht Genitive na seoltóireachta Dative leis an tseoltóireacht don tseoltóireacht

Related terms

• seol (“sail”, verb)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
seoltóireacht	sheoltóireacht after an, tseoltóireacht	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “seoltóireacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “séoltóracht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language