sneachta
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish snechtae, from Proto-Indo-European *snígʷʰs.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈʃnʲaxt̪ˠə], [ˈʃnʲãxt̪ˠə]
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Noun
sneachta m (genitive singular sneachta, nominative plural sneachtaí)
- snow (precipitation)
- Níorbh iontaí liom an sneachta dearg ná é. ― Nothing would surprise me more. (literally, “Red snow would not be more surprising to me than that.”)
Declension
Declension of sneachta
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms
- ar ghile an tsneachta, chomh geal le sneachta (“as white as snow”)
- blár sneachta (“snow-field, expanse of snow”)
- braillín sneachta (“covering of snow”)
- brat sneachta (“mantle of snow”)
- bratóg shneachta f, calóg shneachta f, fíneog shneachta f, lóipín sneachta m, lubhóg shneachta f (“snowflake”)
- bróg shneachta f (“snowshoe”)
- brúcht sneachta (“sudden heavy fall of snow”)
- cáitheadh sneachta (“whirling snow-flakes, fall of snow”)
- cáithnín sneachta m, cloch shneachta f (“hailstone”)
- céachta sneachta m (“snow-plough”)
- cith sneachta (“shower of snow”)
- dairt sneachta (“(cast of) snowball”)
- dealramh an tsneachta (“the glare of the snow”)
- deargán sneachta m (“red-wing”)
- duartan sneachta (“heavy fall of snow”)
- fear sneachta m (“snowman”)
- fras sneachta (“shower of snow”)
- fuacht sneachta (“cold presaging snow”)
- garbhóg shneachta f (“large hailstone”)
- geadán sneachta (“patch of snow”)
- gealóg shneachta f (“snow bunting”)
- liopard sneachta m (“snow leopard”)
- maidhm shneachta f (“avalanche”)
- mar an sneachta séidte (“like driven snow”)
- méadar sneachta (“snow gauge”)
- meall sneachta (“snowball”)
- meall sneachta m (“snowball”)
- muc shneachta f (“snowdrift; large snowball”)
- plúchadh sneachta (“heavy fall of snow”)
- plúirín sneachta m (“snowdrop”)
- ráth sneachta m (“snowdrift”)
- scáil sneachta (“snow-blink”)
- scráib shneachta (“shower of snow”)
- séideán sneachta (“wind-blown snow-shower”)
- síob shneachta (“driven snow”)
- síobadh sneachta m (“blizzard”)
- sleamhnán sneachta (“snow-slide”)
- sneachta briosc (“dry, crunchy, snow”)
- sneachta gléigeal (“pure-white snow”)
- sneachta síobtha (“driven snow”)
- sneachtach, sneachtaí, sneachtúil (“snowy”, adjective)
- sní sneachta (“fall of snow”)
- titim sneachta (“fall of snow”)
- troighean sneachta (“covering of (melting) snow”)
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
sneachta | shneachta after an, tsneachta |
not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sneachta”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “snechta”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- Irish terms inherited from Old Irish
- Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Irish terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish masculine nouns
- Irish terms with usage examples
- Irish fourth-declension nouns
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