seicin

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish sicne.[2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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seicin f (genitive singular seicne)

  1. (anatomy) membrane
    Synonym: scannán
    1. peritoneum
    2. integument
  2. (obsolete) skull
    Synonym: blaosc

Declension

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
seicin sheicin
after an, tseicin
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. ^ seicin”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sicne”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 263, page 93

Further reading

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