seinm

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Irish[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Irish seinm.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

seinm f (genitive singular as substantive seanma, genitive as verbal noun seinnte)

  1. verbal noun of seinn
  2. playing (of musical instrument)
  3. warbling, chattering, chatter

Declension[edit]

As verbal noun:

As substantive:

Mutation[edit]

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
seinm sheinm
after an, tseinm
not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “seinm”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 44

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