seoid

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Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish sét (“object of value; ornament, jewel”),[1] from Proto-Celtic *swantos. Doublet of séad (“chattels”) and possibly saint. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic seud.

Noun

seoid f (genitive singular seoide, nominative plural seoda)

  1. jewel, gem
  2. (in a negative sentence) nothing at all
    • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 194:
      Ní dubhairt an mháthair seóid ach : « Tá go maith, a inghean ó ».
      The mother said nothing at all but, “That is well, daughter.”
Declension
Declension of seoid (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative seoid seoda
vocative a sheoid a sheoda
genitive seoide seod
dative seoid seoda
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an tseoid na seoda
genitive na seoide na seod
dative leis an tseoid
don tseoid 		leis na seoda
Alternative forms

Further reading

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

seoid m

  1. genitive singular of seod

Mutation

Mutated forms of seoid
radical lenition eclipsis
seoid sheoid
after an, tseoid 		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. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 sét”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ “seoid”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
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