seachtain

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish sechtmain, from Late Latin septimāna, from Latin septimus (“seventh”).[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

seachtain f (genitive singular seachtaine, nominative plural seachtainí)

  1. week

Declension

Declension of seachtain (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative seachtain seachtainí
vocative a sheachtain a sheachtainí
genitive seachtaine seachtainí
dative seachtain seachtainí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an tseachtain na seachtainí
genitive na seachtaine na seachtainí
dative leis an tseachtain
don tseachtain 		leis na seachtainí

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of seachtain
radical lenition eclipsis
seachtain sheachtain
after an, tseachtain 		not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ “seachtain”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sechtmain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 62, page 32
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 197, page 75
  5. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 249, page 90

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