seanmhair

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish senmáthair, from sen (old) + máthair (mother). Compare Irish seanmháthair, Manx shennvoir.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃɛ.nə.vɛɾʲ/

Noun

seanmhair f (genitive singular seanmhar, plural seanmhairean)

  1. grandmother

Declension

Declension of seanmhair (type Vb feminine noun)
indefinite
singular plural
nominative seanmhair seanmhairean
genitive seanmhar sheanmhairean
dative seanmhair seanmhairean
definite
singular plural
nominative (an) t-seanmhair (na) seanmhairean
genitive (na) seanmhar (nan) seanmhairean
dative (an) t-seanmhair (na) seanmhairean
vocative sheanmhair sheanmhairean

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of seanmhair
radical lenition
seanmhair sheanmhair
after "an", t-seanmhair

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “seanmhair”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “senmáthair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language