suirghe

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Irish

Noun

suirghe f (genitive singular suirghe)

  1. Alternative form of suirí (“(act of) wooing, courting; courtship”)

Declension

Declension of suirghe

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative suirghe
Vocative a shuirghe
Genitive suirghe
Dative suirghe

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an tsuirghe
Genitive na suirghe
Dative leis an tsuirghe

don tsuirghe

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
suirghe shuirghe
after an, tsuirghe 		not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish suirge (“wooing, courting, love-making”), from so + rige.

Pronunciation

Noun

suirghe f

  1. courting, courtship, or romance

Mutation

Mutation of suirghe
radical lenition
suirghe shuirghe
after "an", t-suirghe

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

References

  1. ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
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