seansailéir

Irish

Alternative forms

• sainsiléir

Etymology

From English chancellor or Middle English chaunceler, from Old French chancelier, from Late Latin cancellārius.

Noun

seansailéir m (genitive singular seansailéara, nominative plural seansailéirí)

1. (education, politics, religion) chancellor

Declension

Declension of seansailéir

Third declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative seansailéir seansailéirí Vocative a sheansailéir a sheansailéirí Genitive seansailéara seansailéirí Dative seansailéir seansailéirí

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an seansailéir na seansailéirí Genitive an tseansailéara na seansailéirí Dative leis an seansailéir don seansailéir leis na seansailéirí

Derived terms

• leas-seansailéir (“vice-chancellor”)
• Seansailéir an Státchiste (“Chancellor of the Exchequer”)
• seansailéireacht (“chancellorship; chancellory”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
seansailéir	sheansailéir after an, tseansailéir	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) “seansailéir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “chancellor”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024