Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish soilsigud.[2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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soilsiú m (genitive singular soilsithe)

  1. verbal noun of soilsigh
  2. illumination, lighting
  3. enlightenment (philosophy and psychology related to achieving clarity of perception, reason and knowledge)

Declension

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Declension of soilsiú (irregular, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative soilsiú
vocative a shoilsiú
genitive soilsithe
dative soilsiú
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an soilsiú
genitive an tsoilsithe
dative leis an soilsiú
don soilsiú
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Mutation

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Mutated forms of soilsiú
radical lenition eclipsis
soilsiú shoilsiú
after an, tsoilsiú
not applicable

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

References

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  1. ^ soilsiú”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “soillsigud”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 74, page 40
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 225, page 83

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