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Irish
Etymology
From English shawl, from Hindi शाल (śāl)/Urdu شال (śāl), from Persian شال (šâl).
Pronunciation
Noun
seál m (genitive singular seáil, nominative plural seálta)
- shawl
Declension
Mutation
Irish mutation
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Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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seál
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sheál after an, tseál
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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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Further reading
- “seál”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “seál”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “seál”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 44