seinm

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish seinm.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

seinm f (genitive singular as substantive seanma, genitive as verbal noun seinnte)

  1. verbal noun of seinn
  2. playing (of musical instrument)
  3. warbling, chattering, chatter

Declension

As verbal noun:

As substantive:

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
seinm sheinm
after an, tseinm
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), “seinm”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 44

Further reading

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