seissed

Middle Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish seissed.

Adjective

seissed

  1. sixth
    • c. 1000, “The Tale of Mac Da Thó's Pig”, in Ernst Windisch, editor, Irische Texte, volume 1, published 1800, section 1:
      Is í sein int ṡeised bruiden ro·boi i n‑hErind in tan sin […]
      That is one of the six halls that were in Ireland at that time […]
      (literally, “That is the sixth hall that was […] ”)

Descendants

  • Irish: seiseadh
  • Scottish Gaelic: seiseadh

Mutation

Mutation of seissed
radical lenition nasalization
seissed ṡeissed unchanged

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

Further reading

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *swexstos, with -ed added by analogy with cóiced.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsʲesʲeð/

Adjective

Old Irish ordinal numbers
 <  5th 6th 7th  > 
    Cardinal : sé
    Ordinal : seissed

seissed

  1. sixth

Inflection

o/ā-stem
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative seissed seissed seissed
vocative seissid*
seissed**
accusative seissed seissid
genitive seissid seisside seissid
dative seissed seissid seissed
plural masculine feminine/neuter
nominative seissid seisseda
vocative seissedu
seisseda†
accusative seissedu
seisseda†
genitive seissed
dative seissedaib

*modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative
**modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative
† not when substantivized

The form seissid is the only attested inflected form. The trisyllabic forms shown in the table are expected to have undergone syncope and surface as *seiste (genitive singular feminine), *sestu (accusative/​vocative plural masculine), *sesta (nominative/​vocative/​accusative plural feminine/​neuter), *sestaib (dative plural), but these are not actually attested.

Descendants

Mutation

Mutation of seissed
radical lenition nasalization
seissed ṡeissed seissed

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

Further reading

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