searg
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish sergaid, seircid (“becomes obsolete; shrinks, diminishes, contracts, wastes away; withers away; ebbs away; causes to diminish, lessen or shrivel up”, verb), from serg. Compare Manx shirg.
Verb
[edit]searg (past shearg, future seargaidh, verbal noun seargadh, past participle seargte)
Conjugation
[edit]| Tense \ Voice | Active | Passive |
|---|---|---|
| Present | a' seargadh | -- |
| Past | shearg | sheargadh |
| Future | seargaidh | seargar |
| Conditional | sheargadh | sheargtadh |
Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition |
|---|---|
| searg | shearg after "an", t-searg |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
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), “sergaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language