suirghe

Irish

Noun

suirghe f (genitive singular suirghe)

  1. alternative form of suirí (“(act of) wooing, courting; courtship”)

Declension

Declension of suirghe (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative suirghe
vocative a shuirghe
genitive suirghe
dative suirghe
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an tsuirghe
genitive na suirghe
dative leis an tsuirghe
don tsuirghe

Mutation

Mutated forms of suirghe
radical lenition eclipsis
suirghe shuirghe
after an, tsuirghe 		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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish suirge (“wooing, courting, love-making”), from so + rige.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈs̪ɯɾʲɯjə/
  • (Lewis) IPA(key): [ˈs̪ɨɾʲɨj][1]

Noun

suirghe f

  1. courting, courtship, or romance

Mutation

Mutation of suirghe
radical lenition
suirghe shuirghe
after "an", t-suirghe

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

References

  1. ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “suirghe”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “suirge”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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