sileadh

Irish

Pronunciation

  • Noun:
  • Past autonomous verb form:
    • (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈʃilʲəɡ/
    • (Galway) IPA(key): /ˈʃilʲəvˠ/
    • (Mayo) IPA(key): /ˈʃilʲuː/
    • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈʃɨlʲu/[1]
  • Past habitual, past subjunctive and imperative verb forms:

Noun

sileadh m (genitive singular as substantive silidh, genitive as verbal noun silte)

  1. verbal noun of sil
  2. (medicine) discharge (pus or exudate from a wound or orifice), pus, matter
    Synonyms: brach, angadh
  3. drip (act of dripping), leakage (act of leaking)
  4. drop (act or instance of dropping), distillation (act of falling in drops)
  5. flow (movement of a fluid)
    Synonym: sreabh

Declension

As a substantive:

Declension of sileadh (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative sileadh
vocative a shilidh
genitive silidh
dative sileadh
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an sileadh
genitive an tsilidh
dative leis an sileadh
don sileadh

As a verbal noun:

Declension of sileadh (irregular, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative sileadh
vocative a shileadh
genitive silte
dative sileadh
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an sileadh
genitive an tsilte
dative leis an sileadh
don sileadh

Verb

sileadh

  1. inflection of sil:
    1. autonomous past indicative
    2. analytic past habitual
    3. analytic past subjunctive
    4. third-person singular imperative

Mutation

Mutated forms of sileadh
radical lenition eclipsis
sileadh shileadh
after an, tsileadh
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. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 99, page 40

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