seamair

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish semar, semair (“clover, shamrock”).

Noun

seamair f (genitive singular seimre, nominative plural seamra)

1. clover

Declension

Declension of seamair (second declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative seamair seamra vocative a sheamair a sheamra genitive seimre seamar dative seamair seamra forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an tseamair na seamra genitive na seimre na seamar dative leis an tseamair don tseamair leis na seamra

Derived terms

• seamair bhán f (“white clover”)
• seamair choille f (“wood-sorrel”)
• seamair chré f (“speedwell”)
• seamair dhearg f, seamair chapaill f (“red clover”)
• seamair mhilis f (“sweet clover”)
• seamair Mhuire f (“four-leaved shamrock”)
• seamróg f (“shamrock”)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of seamair

radical	lenition	eclipsis
seamair	sheamair after an, tseamair	not applicable

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

References

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