sluasaid

Irish

Alternative forms

• sluasad

Etymology

From Middle Irish slúasat.

Noun

sluasaid f (genitive singular sluaiste, nominative plural sluaistí)

1. shovel
2. shovelful

Declension

Declension of sluasaid (second declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative sluasaid sluaistí vocative a shluasaid a shluaistí genitive sluaiste sluaistí dative sluasaid sluaistí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an tsluasaid na sluaistí genitive na sluaiste na sluaistí dative leis an tsluasaid don tsluasaid leis na sluaistí

Derived terms

• sluaisteáil

Mutation

Mutated forms of sluasaid

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