seachtain

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish sechtmain, from Late Latin septimāna, from Latin septimus (seventh).[2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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seachtain f (genitive singular seachtaine, nominative plural seachtainí)

  1. week

Declension

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
seachtain sheachtain
after an, tseachtain
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. ^ seachtain”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sechtmain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 62, page 32
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 197, page 75
  5. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 249, page 90

Further reading

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