suirghe

Irish

Noun

suirghe f (genitive singular suirghe)

  1. Alternative form of suirí (“(act of) wooing, courting; courtship”)

Declension
Declension of suirghe

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative suirghe
Vocative a shuirghe
Genitive suirghe
Dative suirghe

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an tsuirghe
Genitive na suirghe
Dative leis an tsuirghe

don tsuirghe

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

References

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish suirge (“wooing, courting, love-making”), from so + rige.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /s̪ɯɾʲɯjə/

Noun

suirghe f

  1. courting, courtship, or romance

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

References
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “suirghe”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “suirge”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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