seasc

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish sesc,[2] from Proto-Celtic *siskʷos. Cognate with Manx shast and Scottish Gaelic seasg.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃasˠk/

Adjective

seasc (genitive singular masculine seasc, genitive singular feminine seisce, plural seasca, comparative seisce)

  1. barren, infertile, sterile (of places and animals, not usually of people)
  2. (biology) neuter (having no or imperfectly developed sex organs)
    beach sheasc ― a neuter bee
  3. dry (unable to produce liquid)
    tobar seasc agus bó sheasc ― a dry well and a dry cow
  4. unproductive, unfruitful
  5. (dated) unwed

Declension

Declension of seasc
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative seasc sheasc seasca;
sheasca2
vocative sheasc seasca
genitive seisce seasca seasc
dative seasc;
sheasc1 		sheasc seasca;
sheasca2
Comparative níos seisce
Superlative is seisce

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • géim bó seisce (“great cry and little wool”, literally “lowing of a dry cow”)
  • seascach
  • seascachán
  • seascacht
  • seascra
  • seisce

Mutation

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

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