séanas

See also: seaŋáš

Irish

Etymology

Possibly from séan (“good luck”), due to the folkloric association between having a gap in the front teeth and good luck. (Compare French dents du bonheur, literally "teeth of happiness".)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈʃeːn̪ˠəsˠ]

Noun

séanas m (genitive singular séanais, nominative plural séanais)

  1. gap between the upper front teeth, diastema
  2. harelip
  3. (linguistics) hiatus (two vowels in sequence without an intervening consonant)

Declension

Declension of séanas (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative séanas séanais
vocative a shéanais a shéanasa
genitive séanais séanas
dative séanas séanais
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an séanas na séanais
genitive an tséanais na séanas
dative leis an séanas
don séanas 		leis na séanais

Mutation

Mutated forms of séanas
radical lenition eclipsis
séanas shéanas
after an, tséanas 		not applicable

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

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