seasg

Irish

Adjective

seasg (genitive singular masculine seasg, genitive singular feminine seisge, plural seasga, comparative seisge)

1. Superseded spelling of seasc (“barren”).

Declension

Declension of seasg

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	seasg	sheasg	seasga; sheasga2
vocative	sheasg		seasga
genitive		seisge	seasga	seasg
dative	seasg; sheasg1	sheasg	seasga; sheasga2
Comparative	níos seisge
Superlative	is seisge

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Mutated forms of seasg

radical	lenition	eclipsis
seasg	sheasg after an, tseasg	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃesk/

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Middle Irish sesc

Scottish Gaelic seasg

From Old Irish sesc, from Proto-Celtic *siskʷos (“dry”). Cognate with Irish seasc, Welsh hysb, and Latin siccus.

Adjective

seasg (comparative seisge)

1. sterile, barren
2. infertile, dry (non-milch)
   • 1887 December 21, Rev. McRury, Transactions, Inverness Gaelic Society, page 102:

     'Nam measg bha 'n aon bhò aige fhein; oir, o 'n a bha i seasg air a'bhliadhna ud, b' fhearr leis a cur do 'n bheinn na bhith 'ga beathachadh aig a' bhaile.

     Among them was one cow of his own; because, since she was dry that year, he preferred to send her to the mountain than to feed her at the town.

Declension

Declension of seasg (type I adjective)

	masculine	feminine	plural
nominative	seasg	seasg	seasga
genitive	seisg	seisge	seasga
dative	seasg	seisg	seasga
vocative	seisg	seasg	seasga

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Scottish Gaelic seisg

Scottish Gaelic seasg

Variant spelling of seisg.

Noun

seasg m (genitive singular seisg, plural seasgan)

1. Alternative form of seisg (“sedge”)

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “seasg”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• “seasg (adjective)” in Am Faclair Beag - Scottish Gaelic Dictionary.
• “seasg (noun)” in Am Faclair Beag - Scottish Gaelic Dictionary.
• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “seasg”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[2], Stirling, →ISBN, page 306