seál

See also: seal, Seal, and SEAL

Irish

Etymology

From English shawl, from Hindi शाल (śāl)/Urdu شال (śāl), from Persian شال (šâl).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃɑːl̪ˠ/[1], /ʃɑːlˠ/

Noun

seál m (genitive singular seáil, nominative plural seálta)

  1. shawl

Declension

Declension of seál (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative seál seálta
vocative a sheáil a sheálta
genitive seáil seálta
dative seál seálta
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an seál na seálta
genitive an tseáil na seálta
dative leis an seál
don seál
leis na seálta

Mutation

Mutated forms of seál
radical lenition eclipsis
seál sheál
after an, tseál
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. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 78, page 42

Further reading

  • seál”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “seál”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 1001; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “seál”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN