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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish semar, semair (“clover, shamrock”).
Noun
seamair f (genitive singular seimre, nominative plural seamra)
- clover
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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| seamair
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sheamair
after an, tseamair
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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
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “seamair”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “semar, semair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language