seileach

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Irish

Etymology

From seile +‎ -ach.

Adjective

seileach (genitive singular masculine seiligh, genitive singular feminine seilí, plural seileacha, not comparable)

  1. salivary
    Synonym: seileogach

Declension

Declension of seileach
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative seileach sheileach seileacha;
sheileacha2
vocative sheiligh seileacha
genitive seilí seileacha seileach
dative seileach;
sheileach1 		sheileach;
sheiligh (archaic) 		seileacha;
sheileacha2
Comparative (not comparable)
Superlative (not comparable)

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

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of seileach
radical lenition eclipsis
seileach sheileach
after an, tseileach 		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

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish sailech (“willow”) (compare Irish saileach), from Proto-Celtic *salixs (compare Welsh helyg), from Proto-Indo-European *sl̥H-ik- (“willow”) (compare Latin salix).

Pronunciation

Noun

seileach m (genitive singular seilich, plural seilichean or seilich)

  1. willow

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of seileach
radical lenition
seileach sheileach
after "an", t-seileach

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

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “seileach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sailech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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