seanchaí
Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editInherited from Old Irish senchaid. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic seanchaidh, Manx shennaghee.
Noun
editseanchaí m (genitive singular seanchaí, nominative plural seanchaidhe)
Declension
editDeclension of seanchaí
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Descendants
edit- → English: seannachie, shanachie
- → Middle Scots: schenachy
- Scots: shenachie
Mutation
editIrish mutation | ||
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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
edit- 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