searg

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

searg (past shearg, future seargaidh, verbal noun seargadh, past participle seargte)

1. wither, emaciate, wane, dwindle
2. languish, linger
3. decay, shrivel

Conjugation

Tense \ Voice	Active	Passive
Present	a' seargadh	--
Past	shearg	sheargadh
Future	seargaidh	seargar
Conditional	sheargadh	sheargtadh

Mutation

Mutation of searg

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

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sergaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language