seanmháthair

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish senmáthair.[1] By surface analysis, sean- (“old”) +‎ máthair (“mother”). Compare Manx shennvoir, Scottish Gaelic seanmhair.

Noun

seanmháthair f (genitive singular seanmháthar, nominative plural seanmháithreacha)

  1. grandmother
    Coordinate term: (gender) seanathair

Declension

Declension of seanmháthair (fifth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative seanmháthair seanmháithreacha
vocative a sheanmháthair a sheanmháithreacha
genitive seanmháthar seanmháithreacha
dative seanmháthair seanmháithreacha
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an tseanmháthair na seanmháithreacha
genitive na seanmháthar na seanmháithreacha
dative leis an tseanmháthair
don tseanmháthair 		leis na seanmháithreacha

Mutation

Mutated forms of seanmháthair
radical lenition eclipsis
seanmháthair sheanmháthair
after an, tseanmháthair 		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

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “senmáthair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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