sómas

See also: somas and somās

Irish

Alternative forms

  • sómás
  • sómus (obsolete)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsˠoːmˠəsˠ/

Noun

sómas m (genitive singular sómais)

  1. ease (freedom from pain, hardship, and annoyance)
  2. luxury (very wealthy and comfortable surroundings)

Declension

Declension of sómas (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative sómas
vocative a shómaís
genitive sómaís
dative sómas
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an sómas
genitive an tsómaís
dative leis an sómas
don sómas

Derived terms

  • sómasach

Mutation

Mutated forms of sómas
radical lenition eclipsis
sómas shómas
after an, tsómas
not applicable

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

Further reading

  • sómas”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “sómas”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 673
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sómas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN