síothshluagh

Irish

Etymology

sí (“fairy mound”) +‎ slua (“army, host”)

Noun

síothshluagh m (genitive singular síothshluaigh, nominative plural síothshluaigh)

1. (archaic) fairy host, fairy army

Declension

Declension of síothshluagh (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative síothshluagh síothshluaigh vocative a shíothshluaigh a shíothshluagha genitive síothshluaigh síothshluagh dative síothshluagh síothshluaigh forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an síothshluagh na síothshluaigh genitive an tsíothshluaigh na síothshluagh dative leis an síothshluagh don síothshluagh leis na síothshluaigh

Mutation

Mutated forms of síothshluagh

radical	lenition	eclipsis
síothshluagh	shíothshluagh after an, tsíothshluagh	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

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