searrach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish serrach,[1] from Proto-Celtic *stirrākos, from Proto-Indo-European *stirp- (“progeny”) (compare Latin stirps (“stock”), Lithuanian stir̃pti (“to grow up”).[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

searrach m (genitive singular searraigh, nominative plural searraigh)

  1. colt, foal

Declension
Declension of searrach

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative searrach searraigh
Vocative a shearraigh a shearracha
Genitive searraigh searrach
Dative searrach searraigh

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an searrach na searraigh
Genitive an tsearraigh na searrach
Dative leis an searrach

don searrach

 leis na searraigh

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
searrach shearrach
after an, tsearrach		 not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “serrach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 355
  3. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 95

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish serrach, from Proto-Celtic *stirrākos, from Proto-Indo-European *stirp- (“progeny”) (compare Latin stirps (“stock”), Lithuanian stir̃pti (“to grow up”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈʃɛrˠəx/

Noun

searrach m (genitive singular searraich, plural searraich)

  1. colt, foal

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
searrachshearrach
after "an", t-searrach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 355
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