sealbhán

Irish

Etymology

Old Irish selbán, a diminutive of selb (“flock, herd”). By surface analysis, seilbh +‎ -án.

Noun

sealbhán m (genitive singular sealbháin, nominative plural sealbháin)

1. flock, herd

   Sheol sé roimhe an sealbhán torc. ― He drove the herd of boars before him.

2. flock, herd, group (of people)

Declension

Declension of sealbhán (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative sealbhán sealbháin vocative a shealbháin a shealbhána genitive sealbháin sealbhán dative sealbhán sealbháin forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an sealbhán na sealbháin genitive an tsealbháin na sealbhán dative leis an sealbhán don sealbhán leis na sealbháin

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sealbhán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “selbán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language