seisreach

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish sesrech, from the root of sé (“six”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

seisreach f (genitive singular seisrí, nominative plural seisreacha)

  1. plow team
  2. plow

Declension

Declension of seisreach (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative seisreach seisreacha
vocative a sheisreach a sheisreacha
genitive seisrí seisreach
dative seisreach
seisrigh (archaic, dialectal) 		seisreacha
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an tseisreach na seisreacha
genitive na seisrí na seisreach
dative leis an tseisreach
leis an tseisrigh (archaic, dialectal)
don tseisreach
don tseisrigh (archaic, dialectal) 		leis na seisreacha

Mutation

Mutated forms of seisreach
radical lenition eclipsis
seisreach sheisreach
after an, tseisreach 		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), “seisrech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 283, page 100

Further reading

  • “seisreach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “seisreaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 636
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