sealbhán

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish selbán,[1] a diminutive of Old Irish selb (“flock, herd”). By surface analysis, seilbh +‎ -án.

Noun

sealbhán m (genitive singular sealbháin, nominative plural sealbháin)

  1. flock, herd
    Sheol sé roimhe an sealbhán torc. ― He drove the herd of boars before him.
  2. flock, herd, group (of people)

Declension

Declension of sealbhán (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative sealbhán sealbháin
vocative a shealbháin a shealbhána
genitive sealbháin sealbhán
dative sealbhán sealbháin
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an sealbhán na sealbháin
genitive an tsealbháin na sealbhán
dative leis an sealbhán
don sealbhán 		leis na sealbháin

Mutation

Mutated forms of sealbhán
radical lenition eclipsis
sealbhán shealbhán
after an, tsealbhán 		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), “selbán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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