mórsheisear

Irish

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Cardinal: seacht Ordinal: seachtú Ordinal abbreviation: 7ú Personal: mórsheisear, seachtar

From Old Irish mórfeser (literally “large group of six people”). By surface analysis, mór- +‎ seisear

mórsheisear m (genitive singular mórsheisir)

Generally used with the genitive plural when referring to human beings; also sometimes used with other nouns, especially if the things they denote are being personified.

Declension of mórsheisear (first declension, no plural)

forms with the definite article
	singular
nominative	an mórsheisear
genitive	an mhórsheisir
dative	leis an mórsheisear don mhórsheisear

Mutated forms of *mórsheisear*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
mórsheisear	mhórsheisear	not applicable

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

^ “mórsheisear”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 220

Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “móir-ṡeisear”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 757; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “mórsheisear”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “mórsheisear”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm