suirghe

Irish

Noun

suirghe f (genitive singular suirghe)

1. Alternative form of suirí (“(act of) wooing, courting; courtship”)

Declension

Declension of suirghe

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative suirghe Vocative a shuirghe Genitive suirghe Dative suirghe

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an tsuirghe Genitive na suirghe Dative leis an tsuirghe don tsuirghe

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
suirghe	shuirghe after an, tsuirghe	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “suirí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish suirge (“wooing, courting, love-making”), from so + rige.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s̪ɯɾʲɯjə/

Noun

suirghe f

1. courting, courtship, or romance

Mutation

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

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “suirghe”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “suirge”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language