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seasg

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Irish

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Adjective

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seasg (genitive singular masculine seasg, genitive singular feminine seisge, plural seasga, comparative seisge)

  1. Superseded spelling of seasc (barren).

Declension

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Declension of seasg
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative seasg sheasg seasga;
sheasga2
vocative sheasg seasga
genitive seisge seasga seasg
dative seasg;
sheasg1
sheasg seasga;
sheasga2
Comparative níos seisge
Superlative is seisge

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

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Mutated forms of seasg
radical lenition eclipsis
seasg sheasg
after an, tseasg
not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Scottish Gaelic

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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    From Old Irish sesc, from Proto-Celtic *siskʷos (dry). Cognate with Irish seasc, Welsh hysb, and Latin siccus.

    Adjective

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    seasg (comparative seisge)

    1. sterile, barren
    2. infertile, dry (non-milch)
      • 1887 December 21, Rev. McRury, Transactions, Inverness Gaelic Society, page 102:
        'Nam measg bha 'n aon bhò aige fhein; oir, o 'n a bha i seasg air a'bhliadhna ud, b' fhearr leis a cur do 'n bheinn na bhith 'ga beathachadh aig a' bhaile.
        Among them was one cow of his own; because, since she was dry that year, he preferred to send her to the mountain than to feed her at the town.
    Declension
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    Declension of seasg (type I adjective)
    masculine feminine plural
    nominative seasg seasg seasga
    genitive seisg seisge seasga
    dative seasg seisg seasga
    vocative seisg seasg seasga

    Etymology 2

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      Variant spelling of seisg.

      Noun

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      seasg m (genitive singular seisg, plural seasgan)

      1. Alternative form of seisg (sedge)

      References

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      • Edward Dwelly (1911) “seasg”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
      • seasg (adjective)” in Am Faclair Beag - Scottish Gaelic Dictionary.
      • seasg (noun)” in Am Faclair Beag - Scottish Gaelic Dictionary.
      • MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “seasg”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[2], Stirling, →ISBN, page 306