soillsean
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Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Cognate with Irish soilseán. By surface analysis, soillse + -an.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]soillsean m (genitive singular soillsein, plural soillseanan)
Declension
[edit]Declension of soillsean (type I masculine noun)
Indefinite | ||
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Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | soillsean | soillseanan |
Genitive | soillsein | shoillseanan |
Dative | soillsean | soillseanan; soillseanaibh✝ |
Definite | ||
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | (an) soillsean | (na) soillseanan |
Genitive | (an) t-soillsein | (nan) soillseanan |
Dative | (an) t-soillsean | (na) soillseanan; soillseanaibh✝ |
Vocative | shoillsein | shoillseanan |
✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century
Mutation
[edit]Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
soillsean | shoillsean after "an", t-soillsean |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
[edit]- “Tinsel”, in A Dictionary of the Gaelic language, The Highland Society of Scotland, 1828, page 808
- Norman MacLeod, Daniel Dewar (1866) “Torch”, in A Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, page 959
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “soillsean”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (1996) Selected poems, Scottish Academic Press, page 217