seanchaí

Irish

Alternative forms

• seanchaidhe, seanchuidhe (superseded)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Irish senchaid. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic seanchaidh, Manx shennaghee.

Noun

seanchaí m (genitive singular seanchaí, nominative plural seanchaidhe)

1. historian, storyteller

Declension

Declension of seanchaí

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative seanchaí seanchaidhe Vocative a sheanchaí a sheanchaidhe Genitive seanchaí seanchaidhe Dative seanchaí seanchaidhe

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an seanchaí na seanchaidhe Genitive an tseanchaí na seanchaidhe Dative leis an seanchaí don seanchaí leis na seanchaidhe

Descendants

• → English: seannachie, shanachie
• → Middle Scots: schenachy
  • Scots: shenachie

Mutation

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

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “seanċuiḋe”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 628
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “seanċaiḋe”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “seanchaí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “senchaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language