seafaid

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish sechbath (“heifer”).

Noun

seafaid f (genitive singular seafaide, nominative plural seafaidí)

1. heifer

Declension

Declension of seafaid (second declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative seafaid seafaidí vocative a sheafaid a sheafaidí genitive seafaide seafaidí dative seafaid seafaidí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an tseafaid na seafaidí genitive na seafaide na seafaidí dative leis an tseafaid don tseafaid leis na seafaidí

Mutation

Mutated forms of seafaid

radical	lenition	eclipsis
seafaid	sheafaid after an, tseafaid	not applicable

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “seafaid”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sechbath”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language