seoltóireacht

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish séoltóracht. By surface analysis, seoltóir +‎ -acht.

Noun

seoltóireacht f (genitive singular seoltóireachta)

1. sailing

   Tá eolas ar sheoltóireacht aici.

   She knows how to sail.

Declension

Declension of seoltóireacht (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative seoltóireacht vocative a sheoltóireacht genitive seoltóireachta dative seoltóireacht forms with the definite article case singular nominative an tseoltóireacht genitive na seoltóireachta dative leis an tseoltóireacht don tseoltóireacht

Related terms

• seol (“sail”, verb)

Mutation

Mutated forms of seoltóireacht

radical	lenition	eclipsis
seoltóireacht	sheoltóireacht after an, tseoltóireacht	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) “seoltóireacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “séoltóracht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language