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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish sechtmain, from Late Latin septimāna, from Latin septimus (“seventh”).[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
seachtain f (genitive singular seachtaine, nominative plural seachtainí)
- week
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| seachtain
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sheachtain
after an, tseachtain
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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
- ^ “seachtain”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sechtmain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 62, page 32
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 197, page 75
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 249, page 90
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