seascair
Irish
editEtymology
editFrom Middle Irish sescar, sescair. Compare Scottish Gaelic seasgair.
Adjective
editseascair (genitive singular masculine seascair, genitive singular feminine seascaire, plural seascaire, comparative seascaire)
Declension
editDeclension of seascair
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | seascair | sheascair | seascaire; sheascaire² | |
Vocative | sheascair | seascaire | ||
Genitive | seascaire | seascaire | seascair | |
Dative | seascair; sheascair¹ |
sheascair | seascaire; sheascaire² | |
Comparative | níos seascaire | |||
Superlative | is seascaire |
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Mutation
editIrish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
seascair | sheascair after an, tseascair |
not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
edit- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “seascair”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sescar, sescair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “seascair”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “seascair”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024