sailchuach

Irish

Alternative forms
  • salchuach
  • sail-chuach, sal-chuach (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Irish salchuach, from sal (“dirt, impurity”) + cuäch (“goblet, bowl”).

Pronunciation
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /sˠalˠˈxuəx/, /sˠal̪ˠˈxuəx/[1] (corresponding to the form salchuach)

Noun

sailchuach f (genitive singular sailchuaiche, nominative plural sailchuacha)

  1. violet (flower)

Declension
Declension of sailchuach

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sailchuach sailchuacha
Vocative a shailchuach a shailchuacha
Genitive sailchuaiche sailchuach
Dative sailchuach
sailchuaich (archaic, dialectal)		 sailchuacha

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an tsailchuach na sailchuacha
Genitive na sailchuaiche na sailchuach
Dative leis an tsailchuach
leis an tsailchuaich (archaic, dialectal)

don tsailchuach
don tsailchuaich (archaic, dialectal)

 leis na sailchuacha

Derived terms

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

References
  1. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 57

Further reading
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