col seisir

Irish

Noun

col seisir m (genitive singular coil sheisir, nominative plural colanna seisir)

1. second cousin

Usage notes

• Term derives from the degree of separation between oneself and one's second cousin, literally involving six persons (self, one's parent, one's grandparent, that grandparent's sibling, that sibling's child, that child's child).

See also

• col ceathrair
• col cúigir
• col seachtair

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
col seisir	chol seisir	gcol seisir
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “col seisir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “col seisir”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024