serg

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *swergos (“illness”), from Proto-Indo-European *swergʰ-.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sʲerʲɣʲ/

Noun

serg m

Declension

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	serg	serg^L	sirg^L
vocative	sirg	serg^L	sergu^H
accusative	serg^N	serg^L	sergu^H
genitive	sirg^L	serg	serg^N
dative	siurg^L	sergaib	sergaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

^H = triggers aspiration
^L = triggers lenition
^N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

sergaid

Mutation

Mutation of *serg*
radical	lenition	nasalization
serg	ṡerg	serg

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

Further reading

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “serg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language