seál

See also: seal, Seal, and SEAL

Irish

Etymology

From English shawl, from Hindi शाल (śāl)/Urdu شال (śāl), from Persian شال (šâl).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɑːl̪ˠ/, /ʃɑːlˠ/

Noun

seál m (genitive singular seáil, nominative plural seálta)

1. shawl

Declension

Declension of seál

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative seál seálta Vocative a sheáil a sheálta Genitive seáil seálta Dative seál seálta

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an seál na seálta Genitive an tseáil na seálta Dative leis an seál don seál leis na seálta

Mutation

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

Further reading

• “seál”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “seál”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “seál”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 44