serg

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *swergos (“illness”), from Proto-Indo-European *swergʰ-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sʲerʲɣʲ/

Noun

serg m

1. decline
2. illness, sickness
3. shrinking, lessening

Declension

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	serg	sergL	sirgL
Vocative	sirg	sergL	serguH
Accusative	sergN	sergL	serguH
Genitive	sirgL	serg	sergN
Dative	siurgL	sergaib	sergaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• sergaid

Mutation

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

Further reading

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