seasg

Irish

Adjective

seasg (genitive singular masculine seasg, genitive singular feminine seisge, plural seasga, comparative seisge)

  1. superseded spelling of seasc (“barren”)

Declension

Declension of seasg
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative seasg sheasg seasga;
sheasga2
vocative sheasg seasga
genitive seisge seasga seasg
dative seasg;
sheasg1 		sheasg seasga;
sheasga2
Comparative níos seisge
Superlative is seisge

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

Mutation

Mutated forms of seasg
radical lenition eclipsis
seasg sheasg
after an, tseasg 		not applicable

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

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃesk/

Etymology 1

    Etymology tree
    Middle Irish sesc
    Scottish Gaelic seasg

    From Old Irish sesc, from Proto-Celtic *siskʷos (“dry”). Cognate with Irish seasc, Welsh hysb, and Latin siccus.

    Adjective

    seasg (comparative seisge)

    1. sterile, barren
    2. infertile, dry (non-milch)
      • 1887 December 21, Rev. McRury, Transactions, Inverness Gaelic Society, page 102:
        'Nam measg bha 'n aon bhò aige fhein; oir, o 'n a bha i seasg air a'bhliadhna ud, b' fhearr leis a cur do 'n bheinn na bhith 'ga beathachadh aig a' bhaile.
        Among them was one cow of his own; because, since she was dry that year, he preferred to send her to the mountain than to feed her at the town.
    Declension
    Declension of seasg (type I adjective)
    masculine feminine plural
    nominative seasg seasg seasga
    genitive seisg seisge seasga
    dative seasg seisg seasga
    vocative seisg seasg seasga

    Etymology 2

      Etymology tree
      Scottish Gaelic seisg
      Scottish Gaelic seasg

      Variant spelling of seisg.

      Noun

      seasg m (genitive singular seisg, plural seasgan)

      1. alternative form of seisg (“sedge”)

      References

      • Edward Dwelly (1911) “seasg”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
      • “seasg (adjective)” in Am Faclair Beag - Scottish Gaelic Dictionary.
      • “seasg (noun)” in Am Faclair Beag - Scottish Gaelic Dictionary.
      • MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “seasg”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎[2], Stirling, →ISBN, page 306
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