serc

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Middle English

Noun

serc

Alternative form of serk

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *sterkā.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sʲerk/

Noun

serc f

love (both sacred and profane)
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 7^d8
  Do·beir-som ainm bráthre doib, arná·epret is ara miscuis in cúrsachad, act is ara seircc.
  He calls them brothers, lest they should say the reprimand is because of hatred for them, but it is because of love for them.
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 68^b9
  cia beith ar n‑acathar nech inna rétu inducbaidi in betha so, arnach·corathar i mmoth ⁊ machthad dia seirc ⁊ dia n‑accubur
  though it be that someone sees the glorious things of this world, that he may not be put in stupor and admiration by love for them and by desire for them
verbal noun of caraid

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	serc^L	—	—
Vocative	serc^L	—	—
Accusative	seirc^N	—	—
Genitive	seirce^H, sercae	—	—
Dative	seirc^L	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

Descendants

Irish: searc
Scottish Gaelic: seirc

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
serc	ṡerc	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “serc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Polish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sɛrt͡s/
Rhymes: -ɛrt͡s
Syllabification: serc

Noun

serc n pl

genitive plural of serce

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