Sacsanach

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish Saxanach.[1] By surface analysis, Sacsana +‎ -ach. Doublet of Sasanach.

Adjective

Sacsanach (genitive singular masculine Sacsanaigh, genitive singular feminine Sacsanaí, plural Sacsanacha, not comparable)

  1. Saxon
  2. (nominalized) Saxon (person)

Declension

Declension of Sacsanach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative Sacsanach Shacsanach Sacsanacha;
Shacsanacha2
vocative Shacsanaigh Sacsanacha
genitive Sacsanaí Sacsanacha Sacsanach
dative Sacsanach;
Shacsanach1 		Shacsanach;
Shacsanaigh (archaic) 		Sacsanacha;
Shacsanacha2
Comparative (not comparable)
Superlative (not comparable)

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of Sacsanach
radical lenition eclipsis
Sacsanach Shacsanach
after an, tSacsanach 		not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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

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