seasg

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Irish

Adjective

seasg (genitive singular masculine seasg, genitive singular feminine seisge, plural seasga, comparative seisge)

  1. Superseded spelling of seasc (“barren”).

Declension

Declension of seasg
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative seasg sheasg seasga;
sheasga²
Vocative sheasg seasga
Genitive seisge seasga seasg
Dative seasg;
sheasg¹ 		sheasg seasga;
sheasga²
Comparative níos seisge
Superlative is seisge

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
seasg sheasg
after an, tseasg 		not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

    Etymology tree
    Middle Irish sesc
    Scottish Gaelic seasg

    From Old Irish sesc, from Proto-Celtic *siskʷos (“dry”). Cognate with Irish seasc, Welsh hysb, and Latin siccus.

    Adjective

    seasg (comparative seisge)

    1. sterile, barren
    2. infertile, dry (non-milch)
      • 1887 December 21, Rev. McRury, Transactions, Inverness Gaelic Society, page 102:
        'Nam measg bha 'n aon bhò aige fhein; oir, o 'n a bha i seasg air a'bhliadhna ud, b' fhearr leis a cur do 'n bheinn na bhith 'ga beathachadh aig a' bhaile.
        Among them was one cow of his own; because, since she was dry that year, he preferred to send her to the mountain than to feed her at the town.
    Declension
    Declension of seasg (type I adjective)
    Masculine Feminine Plural
    Nominative seasg seasg seasga
    Genitive seisg seisge seasga
    Dative seasg seisg seasga
    Vocative seisg seasg seasga

    Etymology 2

      Etymology tree
      Scottish Gaelic seisg
      Scottish Gaelic seasg

      Variant spelling of seisg.

      Noun

      seasg m (genitive singular seisg, plural seasgan)

      1. Alternative form of seisg (“sedge”)

      References

      • Edward Dwelly (1911) “seasg”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
      • “seasg (adjective)” in Am Faclair Beag - Scottish Gaelic Dictionary.
      • “seasg (noun)” in Am Faclair Beag - Scottish Gaelic Dictionary.
      • MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “seasg”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN, page 306
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