seicin

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish sicne.[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

seicin f (genitive singular seicne)

  1. (anatomy) membrane
    Synonym: scannán
    1. peritoneum
    2. integument
  2. (obsolete) skull
    Synonym: blaosc

Declension

Declension of seicin (second declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative seicin
vocative a sheicin
genitive seicne
dative seicin
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an tseicin
genitive na seicne
dative leis an tseicin
don tseicin

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of seicin
radical lenition eclipsis
seicin sheicin
after an, tseicin 		not applicable

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

References

  1. ^ “seicin”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sicne”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 263, page 93

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