seafaid

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish sechbath (“heifer”).

Noun

seafaid f (genitive singular seafaide, nominative plural seafaidí)

1. heifer

Declension

Declension of seafaid

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative seafaid seafaidí Vocative a sheafaid a sheafaidí Genitive seafaide seafaidí Dative seafaid seafaidí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an tseafaid na seafaidí Genitive na seafaide na seafaidí Dative leis an tseafaid don tseafaid leis na seafaidí

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
seafaid	sheafaid after an, tseafaid	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) “seafaid”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sechbath”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language