siansach
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish síansach (“melodious”). By surface analysis, siansa + -ach.
Adjective
[edit]siansach (genitive singular masculine siansaigh, genitive singular feminine siansaí, plural siansacha, comparative siansaí)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| nominative | siansach | shiansach | siansacha; shiansacha2 | |
| vocative | shiansaigh | siansacha | ||
| genitive | siansaí | siansacha | siansach | |
| dative | siansach; shiansach1 |
shiansach; shiansaigh (archaic) |
siansacha; shiansacha2 | |
| Comparative | níos siansaí | |||
| Superlative | is siansaí | |||
1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | eclipsis |
|---|---|---|
| siansach | shiansach after an, tsiansach |
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
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “siansach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “síansach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language