seachtain
Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish sechtmain, from Late Latin septimāna, from Latin septimus (“seventh”).[2]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
seachtain f (genitive singular seachtaine, nominative plural seachtainí)
- week
- 1906, E. C. Quiggin, “Áindrías an Ime”, in A Dialect of Donegal: Being the Speech of Meenawannia in the Parish of Glenties, page 196:
- Seachtmhain roimhe Shamhain chuaidh an Seónstanach siar ⁊ seacht ngearráin ⁊ péire cliabh air ghach gearrán fá choinne a chuid ime.
- A week before Samhain, Johnstone went back with seven geldings and a pair of panniers on each gelding for his butter.
Declension edit
Declension of seachtain
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Derived terms edit
Mutation edit
| Irish mutation | ||
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| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| seachtain | sheachtain after an, tseachtain |
not applicable |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References edit
- ^ “seachtain”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “sechtmain”, 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 32
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 75
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 90
Further reading edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “seachtain”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN