seasc

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish sesc,[2] from Proto-Celtic *siskʷos. Cognate with Manx shast and Scottish Gaelic seasg.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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seasc (genitive singular masculine seasc, genitive singular feminine seisce, plural seasca, comparative seisce)

  1. barren, infertile, sterile (of places and animals, not usually of people)
  2. (biology) neuter (having no or imperfectly developed sex organs)
    beach sheasca neuter bee
  3. dry (unable to produce liquid)
    tobar seasc agus bó sheasca dry well and a dry cow
  4. unproductive, unfruitful
  5. (dated) unwed

Declension

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Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
seasc sheasc
after an, tseasc
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. ^ seasc”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sesc, seisc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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