seanadóir
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish senatóir, from Latin senātor. By surface analysis, seanad (“senate”) + -óir (agent suffix).
Noun
[edit]seanadóir m (genitive singular seanadóra, nominative plural seanadóirí)
Declension
[edit]Declension of seanadóir
Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
[edit]- seanadóireacht f (“senatorship”)
- seanadóiriúil (“senatorial”, adjective)
Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
seanadóir | sheanadóir after an, tseanadóir |
not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “seanadóir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “senatóir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language