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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish sechtmoga (“seventy”), from secht (“seven”).
Pronunciation
Numeral
seachtó
- seventy
Usage notes
- Always used with nouns in the singular; triggers no mutation:
- seachtó carr ― seventy cars
- seachtó bean ― seventy women
- seachtó bliain ― seventy years
Noun
seachtó m (genitive singular seachtód, nominative plural seachtóidí)
- seventy
Declension
References
- “seventy”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024, retrieved 21 May 2024
- “seachtó”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024, retrieved 21 May 2024
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “seaċtṁoġa”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 623
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “seventy”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, retrieved 21 May 2024
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “seachtó”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN, retrieved 21 May 2024
- Ó Dónaill, Niall, Ua Maoileoin, Pádraig (1991) “seachtó”, in An Foclóir Beag (in Irish), Dublin: An Gúm, retrieved 21 May 2024
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sechtmoga”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language