seachtain

Irish

seachtain f (genitive singular seachtaine, nominative plural seachtainí)

week
- 1906, E. C. Quiggin, “Áindrías an Ime”, in A Dialect of Donegal: Being the Speech of Meenawannia in the Parish of Glenties, page 196:
  Seachtmhain roimhe Shamhain chuaidh an Seónstanach siar ⁊ seacht ngearráin ⁊ péire cliabh air ghach gearrán fá choinne a chuid ime.
  A week before Samhain, Johnstone went back with seven geldings and a pair of panniers on each gelding for his butter.

Declension of seachtain (second declension)

forms with the definite article
case	singular	plural
nominative	an tseachtain	na seachtainí
genitive	na seachtaine	na seachtainí
dative	leis an tseachtain don tseachtain	leis na seachtainí

Mutated forms of *seachtain*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
seachtain	sheachtain after an, tseachtain	not applicable

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

^ “seachtain”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sechtmain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 62, page 32
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 197, page 75
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 249, page 90