séanas

See also: seaŋáš

Irish

Etymology

Possibly from séan (“good luck”), due to the folkloric association between having a gap in the front teeth and good luck. (Compare French dents du bonheur, literally "teeth of happiness".)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈʃeːn̪ˠəsˠ]

Noun

séanas m (genitive singular séanais, nominative plural séanais)

  1. gap between the upper front teeth, diastema
  2. harelip
  3. (linguistics) hiatus (two vowels in sequence without an intervening consonant)

Declension
Declension of séanas

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative séanas séanais
Vocative a shéanais a shéanasa
Genitive séanais séanas
Dative séanas séanais

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an séanas na séanais
Genitive an tséanais na séanas
Dative leis an séanas

don séanas

 leis na séanais

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