searrach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish serrach,[1] from Proto-Celtic *stirrākos, from Proto-Indo-European *stirp- (“progeny”) (compare Latin stirps (“stock”), Lithuanian stir̃pti (“to grow up”).[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

searrach m (genitive singular searraigh, nominative plural searraigh)

  1. colt, foal

Declension

Declension of searrach (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative searrach searraigh
vocative a shearraigh a shearracha
genitive searraigh searrach
dative searrach searraigh
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an searrach na searraigh
genitive an tsearraigh na searrach
dative leis an searrach
don searrach 		leis na searraigh

Mutation

Mutated forms of searrach
radical lenition eclipsis
searrach shearrach
after an, tsearrach 		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. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “serrach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 355
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 95

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish serrach, from Proto-Celtic *stirrākos, from Proto-Indo-European *stirp- (“progeny”) (compare Latin stirps (“stock”), Lithuanian stir̃pti (“to grow up”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

searrach m (genitive singular searraich, plural searraich)

  1. colt, foal

Mutation

Mutation of searrach
radical lenition
searrach shearrach
after "an", t-searrach

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

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 355
  2. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1941) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. II: The dialects of Skye and Ross-shire, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap, page 15
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