sleabhac

Irish

Alternative forms

• slabhac (Ulster)

Etymology

From English sloke.

Noun

sleabhac m (genitive singular sleabhaic)

1. laver, Porphyra umbilicalis

   Synonym: glasarnacht

Declension

Declension of sleabhac (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative sleabhac vocative a shleabhaic genitive sleabhaic dative sleabhac forms with the definite article case singular nominative an sleabhac genitive an tsleabhaic dative leis an sleabhac don sleabhac

Derived terms

• sleabhcán

Mutation

Mutated forms of sleabhac

radical	lenition	eclipsis
sleabhac	shleabhac after an, tsleabhac	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

• “sleabhac”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy