seanchaí

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish senchaid.[2] Cognate with Scottish Gaelic seanchaidh, Manx shennaghee.

Noun

seanchaí m (genitive singular seanchaí, nominative plural seanchaidhe)

  1. seannachie, historian, storyteller

Declension

Declension of seanchaí (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative seanchaí seanchaidhe
vocative a sheanchaí a sheanchaidhe
genitive seanchaí seanchaidhe
dative seanchaí seanchaidhe
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an seanchaí na seanchaidhe
genitive an tseanchaí na seanchaidhe
dative leis an seanchaí
don seanchaí 		leis na seanchaidhe

Descendants

Mutation

Mutated forms of seanchaí
radical lenition eclipsis
seanchaí sheanchaí
after an, tseanchaí 		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. ^ “seanchaí”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “senchaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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