sinnseardha

Irish

Etymology

sinsear +‎ -dha

Adjective

sinnseardha

1. (obsolete) ancestral
2. (obsolete) olden, of yore

Inflection

Declension of sinnseardha

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	sinnseardha	shinnseardha	sinnseardha; shinnseardha2
vocative	shinnseardha		sinnseardha
genitive		sinnseardha	sinnseardha	sinnseardha
dative	sinnseardha; shinnseardha1	shinnseardha	sinnseardha; shinnseardha2
Comparative	níos sinnseardha
Superlative	is sinnseardha

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

Derived terms

• sinnseardhacht

Mutation

Mutated forms of sinnseardha

radical	lenition	eclipsis
sinnseardha	shinnseardha after an, tsinnseardha	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

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