siúcra
Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Irish siúcra (compare Scottish Gaelic siùcar), from Anglo-Norman sucre, from Old French çucre, chucre, from Old Italian zucchero, from Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar), from Persian شکر (šakar), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śarkarā, “ground or candied sugar”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
siúcra m (genitive singular siúcra, nominative plural siúcraí)
Declension edit
Declension of siúcra
Derived terms edit
- bata siúcra
- biatas siúcra
- cána siúcra
- coirceog shiúcra
- leathchloch shiúcra
- mailp an tsiúcra
- plandáil siúcra
- scaglann siúcra
- siúcra bainne
- siúcra bán
- siúcra biatais
- siúcra cána
- siúcra candaí
- siúcra dóite
- siúcra donn
- siúcra fíonchaor
- siúcra garbh
- siúcra luaidhe
- siúcra mailpe
- siúcra mín
- siúcra na gcnapán
- siúcra rua
- siúcra toraidh
- siúcraiféarach
- siúcraigh
- siúcramhéadar
- siúcrós
- siúcrúil
- tlú siúcra
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
siúcra | shiúcra after an, tsiúcra |
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), “siúcra”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “siúcra”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 39