seachd

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Scottish Gaelic

Scottish Gaelic numbers (edit)
70[a], [b]
 ←  6 7 8  → 
    Cardinal: seachd
    Standalone: a seachd
    Ordinal: seachdamh
    Ordinal abbreviation: 7mh
    Personal: seachdnar
    Multiplier: seachd-fillte

Etymology

From Old Irish secht, from Proto-Celtic *sextam, from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥.

Pronunciation

Numeral

seachd

  1. seven

Derived terms

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
seachd sheachd
after "an", t-seachd
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “seachd”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 secht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language