sechtmad

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *sextametos. By surface analysis, secht +‎ -mad.

Adjective

Middle Irish ordinal numbers

<  6th	7th	8th  >
Cardinal : secht     Ordinal : sechtmad

sechtmad

1. seventh

Descendants

• Irish: seachtú

Mutation

Mutation of sechtmad

radical	lenition	nasalization
sechtmad	ṡechtmad	unchanged

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

Further reading

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