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Irish
Etymology
Possibly from séan (“good luck”), due to the folkloric association between having a gap in the front teeth and good luck. (Compare French dents du bonheur, literally "teeth of happiness".)
Pronunciation
Noun
séanas m (genitive singular séanais, nominative plural séanais)
- gap between the upper front teeth, diastema
- harelip
- (linguistics) hiatus (two vowels in sequence without an intervening consonant)
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| séanas
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shéanas
after an, tséanas
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not applicable
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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