céirseach

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish cíarsech, from cíar (“black, dark”) (whence modern ciar).[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

céirseach f (genitive singular céirsí, nominative plural céirseacha)

  1. female blackbird
  2. (poetic) song thrush
    Synonym: smólach ceoil

Declension

Declension of céirseach (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative céirseach céirseacha
vocative a chéirseach a chéirseacha
genitive céirsí céirseach
dative céirseach
céirsigh (archaic, dialectal) 		céirseacha
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an chéirseach na céirseacha
genitive na céirsí na gcéirseach
dative leis an gcéirseach
leis an gcéirsigh (archaic, dialectal)
don chéirseach
don chéirsigh (archaic, dialectal) 		leis na céirseacha

Hypernyms

  • lon dubh (“blackbird (regardless of gender)”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of céirseach
radical lenition eclipsis
céirseach chéirseach gcéirseach

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

References

  1. ^ “céirseach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “céirsech, cíarsech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 35

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