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Irish
Etymology 1
From Old Irish serc (“love”).
Noun
searc f (genitive singular seirce or searca, nominative plural searca)
- love
- beloved one
Declension
- Alternative declension
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Noun
searc m (genitive singular searca, nominative plural searcanna)
- Alternative form of siorc (“shark”)
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| searc
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shearc
after an, tsearc
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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) “searc”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “searc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language