Sacsanach

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Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish Saxanach.[1] By surface analysis, Sacsana +‎ -ach. Doublet of Sasanach.

Adjective

Sacsanach (genitive singular masculine Sacsanaigh, genitive singular feminine Sacsanaí, plural Sacsanacha, not comparable)

  1. Saxon
  2. (nominalized) Saxon (person)

Declension

Declension of Sacsanach
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative Sacsanach Shacsanach Sacsanacha;
Shacsanacha2
vocative Shacsanaigh Sacsanacha
genitive Sacsanaí Sacsanacha Sacsanach
dative Sacsanach;
Shacsanach1 		Shacsanach;
Shacsanaigh (archaic) 		Sacsanacha;
Shacsanacha2
Comparative (not comparable)
Superlative (not comparable)

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of Sacsanach
radical lenition eclipsis
Sacsanach Shacsanach
after an, tSacsanach 		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), “Saxanach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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