sesc

See also: šesć and šěsć

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *siskʷos, from a thematicization of Proto-Indo-European *siskus (“dry”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sʲesk]

Adjective

sesc

1. barren, infertile

Inflection

o/ā-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	sesc	sesc	sesc
Vocative	seisc* sesc**
Accusative	sesc	seisc
Genitive	seisc	sescae	seisc
Dative	sesc	seisc	sesc
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	seisc	sesca
Vocative	sescu sesca†
Accusative	sescu sesca†
Genitive	sesc
Dative	sescaib
Notes	*modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative **modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative † not when substantivized

Descendants

• Middle Irish: sesc, seisc
  • Irish: seasc
  • Manx: shast
  • Scottish Gaelic: seasg

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
sesc	ṡesc	unchanged
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), “sesc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language