seanmháthair
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish senmáthair. By surface analysis, sean- (“old”) + máthair (“mother”). Compare Manx shennvoir, Scottish Gaelic seanmhair.
Noun
[edit]seanmháthair f (genitive singular seanmháthar, nominative plural seanmháithreacha)
- grandmother
- Coordinate term: (gender) seanathair
Declension
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Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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seanmháthair | sheanmháthair after an, tseanmháthair |
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
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “senmáthair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “sean-ṁáṫair”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 629
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “seanmháthair”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “seanmháthair”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “seanmháthair”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024