sean

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "sean"

English

Noun

sean (plural seans)

  1. Dated form of seine.

Verb

sean (third-person singular simple present seans, present participle seaning, simple past and past participle seaned)

  1. Dated form of seine.
    • 1874, Edmund William Hunt Holdsworth, Deep-sea fishing and fishing boats, page 157:
      Seaning is conducted on a large scale at St. Ives for the capture of pilchards

References

Anagrams

Gagauz

Pronoun

sean (accusative seni, plural siz)

  1. obsolete spelling of sän

Further reading

  • Ciachir, Mihail (1938) “sean”, in Dicționar gagauzo (tiurco)–român pentru gagauzii din Basarabia (in Romanian), Chișinău, page 85

Irish

Etymology

PIE word
*sénos

From Old Irish sen (compare Manx shenn), from Proto-Celtic *senos (compare Welsh hen), from Proto-Indo-European *sénos (“old”) (compare Latin senior/senex, Lithuanian sẽnas).

Pronunciation

Adjective

sean (comparative sine) (used predicatively)

  1. old

Usage notes

Noun

sean m (genitive singular sean, nominative plural seana)

  1. senior, ancestor
  2. oldness; old thing

Declension

Declension of sean (irregular)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative sean seana
vocative a shean a sheana
genitive sean sean
dative sean seana
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an sean na seana
genitive an tsean na sean
dative leis an tsean
don tsean 		leis na seana

Mutation

Mutated forms of sean
radical lenition eclipsis
sean shean
after an, tsean 		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. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 sen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 104, page 57
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 249, page 90

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish sen (compare Manx shenn), from Proto-Celtic *senos (compare Welsh hen), from Proto-Indo-European *sénos (“old”) (compare Latin senior/senex, Lithuanian sẽnas).

Pronunciation

Adjective

sean (comparative sine)

  1. old

Derived terms

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “sean”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan ‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 sen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsean/
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ean
  • Syllabification: se‧an

Verb

sean

  1. inflection of ser:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative

Volapük

Noun

sean (nominative plural seans)

  1. ocean (large body of water)

Declension

Declension of sean
singular plural
nominative sean seans
genitive seana seanas
dative seane seanes
accusative seani seanis
vocative 1 o sean! o seans!
predicative 2 seanu seanus

1 status as a case is disputed
2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

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