seachrán

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish sechrán.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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seachrán m (genitive singular seachráin, nominative plural seachráin)

  1. aberration (act of wandering or deviation; abnormality; partial alienation of reason)
    Synonym: iomrall
  2. delusion (false belief, error in belief), error
  3. wandering, straying
  4. distraction (mental disorder)

Declension

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • English: shaughraun

Mutation

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

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sechrán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 330, page 114

Further reading

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