seanchaí
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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Old Irish senchaid. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic seanchaidh, Manx shennaghee.
Noun
seanchaí m (genitive singular seanchaí, nominative plural seanchaidhe)
Declension
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Descendants
- → English: seannachie, schenachy, seannachy, senachie, senachy, sennachie, sennachy, shanachie, shanachy, shenachie
- → Middle Scots: schenachy
- > Scots: shenachie (inherited)
Mutation
| radical | lenition | eclipsis |
|---|---|---|
| seanchaí | sheanchaí after an, tseanchaí |
not applicable |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “seanċuiḋe”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 628
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “seanċaiḋe”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “seanchaí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “senchaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language