sliocht

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish slicht (“mark, trace, trail, section, offspring”).

Noun

sliocht m (genitive singular sleachta, nominative plural sleachta)

  1. offspring, progeny
  2. passage, tract, extract, reading, excerpt (of text, piece of music, etc.)
  3. composition, piece (literary, musical)

Declension

Declension of sliocht (third declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative sliocht sleachta
vocative a shliocht a shleachta
genitive sleachta sliocht
dative sliocht sleachta
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an sliocht na sleachta
genitive an tsleachta na sliocht
dative leis an sliocht
don sliocht 		leis na sleachta

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of sliocht
radical lenition eclipsis
sliocht shliocht
after an, tsliocht 		not applicable

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

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