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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish sicne.[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
seicin f (genitive singular seicne)
- (anatomy) membrane
- Synonym: scannán
- peritoneum
- integument
- (obsolete) skull
- Synonym: blaosc
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| seicin
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sheicin
after an, tseicin
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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
- ^ “seicin”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sicne”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 263, page 93
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