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Irish
Etymology
From sean- (“old”) + draoi (“druid, wizard”).
Pronunciation
Noun
seandraoi m (genitive singular seandraoi, nominative plural seandraoithe)
- (literally) old druid, old wizard
- (figuratively) crafty older person
- precocious child
Declension
Further reading
- “seandraoi”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “sean-draoi”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 628
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “seandraoi”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 15