seansailéir

Irish

Alternative forms

• sainsiléir

Etymology

From English chancellor or Middle English chaunceler, from Old French chancelier, from Late Latin cancellārius.

Noun

seansailéir m (genitive singular seansailéara, nominative plural seansailéirí)

1. (education, politics, religion) chancellor

Declension

Declension of seansailéir (third declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative seansailéir seansailéirí vocative a sheansailéir a sheansailéirí genitive seansailéara seansailéirí dative seansailéir seansailéirí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an seansailéir na seansailéirí genitive an tseansailéara na seansailéirí dative leis an seansailéir don seansailéir leis na seansailéirí

Derived terms

• leas-seansailéir (“vice-chancellor”)
• Seansailéir an Státchiste (“Chancellor of the Exchequer”)
• seansailéireacht (“chancellorship; chancellory”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of seansailéir

radical	lenition	eclipsis
seansailéir	sheansailéir after an, tseansailéir	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

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “seansailéir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “chancellor”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025