seanchailleach

Irish

Alternative forms

• sean-chailleach

Etymology

From sean- (“old”) +‎ cailleach (“witch”).

Noun

seanchailleach f (genitive singular seanchaillí, nominative plural seanchailleacha)

1. (derogatory) old woman
2. crone, old hag, old witch

Declension

Declension of seanchailleach (second declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative seanchailleach seanchailleacha vocative a sheanchailleach a sheanchailleacha genitive seanchaillí seanchailleach dative seanchailleach seanchailligh (archaic, dialectal) seanchailleacha forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an tseanchailleach na seanchailleacha genitive na seanchaillí na seanchailleach dative leis an tseanchailleach leis an tseanchailligh (archaic, dialectal) don tseanchailleach don tseanchailligh (archaic, dialectal) leis na seanchailleacha

Mutation

Mutated forms of seanchailleach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
seanchailleach	sheanchailleach after an, tseanchailleach	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

• “seanchailleach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “seanchailleach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN