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Irish
Etymology
From seó (“show”) (from English show) + -igh (adjectival suffix), alternative form of -í.
Pronunciation
Adjective
seoigh (genitive singular feminine seoighe, plural seoighe, comparative seoighe)
- excellent, grand, wonderful, great
- go seoigh ― swimmingly
Declension
1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Further reading
- “seoigh”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “seoiġ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 637
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “seoigh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 40