siansach
Irish
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish síansach (“melodious”). By surface analysis, siansa + -ach.
Adjective
editsiansach (genitive singular masculine siansaigh, genitive singular feminine siansaí, plural siansacha, comparative siansaí)
Declension
editDeclension of siansach
| 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| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| siansach | shiansach after an, tsiansach |
not applicable |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
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