sealbhán
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Irish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Old Irish selbán, a diminutive of selb (“flock, herd”). By surface analysis, seilbh + -án.
Noun[edit]
sealbhán m (genitive singular sealbháin, nominative plural sealbháin)
- flock, herd
- Sheol sé roimhe an sealbhán torc. ― He drove the herd of boars before him.
- flock, herd, group (of people)
Declension[edit]
Declension of sealbhán
Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Further reading[edit]
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sealbhán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “selbán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language