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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish sechrán.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
seachrán m (genitive singular seachráin, nominative plural seachráin)
- aberration (act of wandering or deviation; abnormality; partial alienation of reason)
- Synonym: iomrall
- delusion (false belief, error in belief), error
- wandering, straying
- distraction (mental disorder)
Declension
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Mutation
Irish mutation
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Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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seachrán
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sheachrán after an, tseachrán
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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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References
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sechrán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 330, page 114
Further reading
- “seachrán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “seaċrán”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 623
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “seachrán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN