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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish sesc,[2] from Proto-Celtic *siskʷos. Cognate with Manx shast and Scottish Gaelic seasg.
Pronunciation
Adjective
seasc (genitive singular masculine seasc, genitive singular feminine seisce, plural seasca, comparative seisce)
- barren, infertile, sterile (of places and animals, not usually of people)
- (biology) neuter (having no or imperfectly developed sex organs)
- beach sheasc ― a neuter bee
- dry (unable to produce liquid)
- tobar seasc agus bó sheasc ― a dry well and a dry cow
- unproductive, unfruitful
- (dated) unwed
Declension
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| seasc
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sheasc
after an, tseasc
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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
- ^ “seasc”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sesc, seisc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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