seachd
Scottish Gaelic
| 70[a], [b] | ||
| ← 6 | 7 | 8 → |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal: seachd Standalone: a seachd Ordinal: seachdamh Ordinal abbreviation: 7mh Personal: seachdnar Multiplier: seachd-fillte | ||
Etymology
From Old Irish secht, from Proto-Celtic *sextam, from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥.
Pronunciation
Numeral
seachd
Derived terms
- Na Seachd-Reultan (“the Pleiades”)
- seachd-fillte (“sevenfold”)
- seachd-shliosach (“heptagon(al)”)
- seachdad (“seventy”)
- seachdamh (“seventh”)
- seachdnar (“seven (persons)”)
Mutation
| radical | lenition |
|---|---|
| seachd | sheachd after "an", t-seachd |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap, page 57
- ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1940) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. I: The dialects of the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
Further reading
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “seachd”, 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), “1 secht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language