seanmhair

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish senmáthair, from sen (“old”) + máthair (“mother”). Compare Irish seanmháthair, Manx shennvoir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛ.nə.vɛɾʲ/

Noun

seanmhair f (genitive singular seanmhar, plural seanmhairean)

1. grandmother

Derived terms

• ionnsaich do sheanmhair lit' a dhèanamh

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
seanmhair	sheanmhair after "an", t-seanmhair
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “seanmhair”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “senmáthair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language