sochaí

Irish

Alternative forms

  • sochaidhe

Etymology

From Old Irish sochaide (“crowd”)[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

sochaí f (genitive singular sochaí, nominative plural sochaithe)

  1. many
  2. host, multitude
  3. (sociology) social community, society

Declension

Declension of sochaí (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative sochaí sochaithe
vocative a shochaí a shochaithe
genitive sochaí sochaithe
dative sochaí sochaithe
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an tsochaí na sochaithe
genitive na sochaí na sochaithe
dative leis an tsochaí
don tsochaí 		leis na sochaithe

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of sochaí
radical lenition eclipsis
sochaí shochaí
after an, tsochaí 		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. ^ Hickey, Raymond (2012) “Internally- and Externally-Motivated Language Change”, in Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre, Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy, editors, The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics, Wiley, →ISBN, pages 387–408

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