Seoirseach

Irish

Etymology

From Seoirse (“George”) +‎ -ach.

Adjective

Seoirseach (genitive singular masculine Seoirsigh, genitive singular feminine Seoirsí, plural Seoirseacha, not comparable)

1. Georgian (of, from, or pertaining to the Eastern European country of Georgia or the Georgian people)
2. Georgian (of, from, or characteristic of the reigns of Kings George I and George II of Great Britain, and George III and George IV of the United Kingdom (1714–1830))

Declension

Declension of Seoirseach

Positive	singular		plural
	masculine	feminine
nominative	Seoirseach	Sheoirseach	Seoirseacha; Sheoirseacha2
vocative	Sheoirsigh		Seoirseacha
genitive		Seoirsí	strong noun	weak noun
			Seoirseacha	Seoirseach
dative	Seoirseach; Sheoirseach1	Sheoirseach; Sheoirsigh (archaic)	Seoirseacha; Sheoirseacha2
Comparative	níos Seoirsí
Superlative	is Seoirsí

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Related terms

• An tSeoirsia f (“Georgia”) (country)
• Seoirsis f (“the Georgian language”)

Noun

Seoirseach m (genitive singular Seoirsigh, nominative plural Seoirsigh)

1. a Georgian person (person or a descendant of a person from Georgia, a country in Eastern Europe)
2. (historical) Georgian (British citizen during the reign of a king named George)

Declension

Declension of Seoirseach (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative Seoirseach Seoirsigh vocative a Sheoirsigh a Sheoirseacha genitive Seoirsigh Seoirseach dative Seoirseach Seoirsigh forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an Seoirseach na Seoirsigh genitive an tSeoirsigh na Seoirseach dative leis an Seoirseach don Seoirseach leis na Seoirsigh

Mutation

Mutated forms of Seoirseach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
Seoirseach	Sheoirseach after an, tSeoirseach	not applicable

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “Seoirseach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “Georgian”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025