searg

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish sergaid, seircid (“becomes obsolete; shrinks, diminishes, contracts, wastes away; withers away; ebbs away; causes to diminish, lessen or shrivel up”, verb), from serg. Compare Manx shirg.

Verb

searg (past shearg, future seargaidh, verbal noun seargadh, past participle seargte)

1. wither, emaciate, wane, dwindle
2. languish, linger
3. decay, shrivel

Conjugation

Tense \ Voice	Active	Passive
Present	a' seargadh	--
Past	shearg	sheargadh
Future	seargaidh	seargar
Conditional	sheargadh	sheargtadh

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
searg	shearg after "an", t-searg
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sergaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language