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seilbh

Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish selb (compare Manx shelloo), from Proto-Celtic *selwā.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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seilbh f (genitive singular seilbhe, nominative plural sealbha)

  1. occupancy, possession
  2. thing possessed; property, estate, demesne

Declension

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Declension of seilbh

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative seilbh sealbha
Vocative a sheilbh a shealbha
Genitive seilbhe sealbh
Dative seilbh sealbha

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an tseilbh na sealbha
Genitive na seilbhe na sealbh
Dative leis an tseilbh

don tseilbh

leis na sealbha

Derived terms

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Mutation

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

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “selb”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 104, page 41

Further reading

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish selb (compare Manx shelloo), from Proto-Celtic *selwā.

Noun

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seilbh m (genitive singular seilbhe, plural seilbhean)

  1. property, possession
    Synonym: sealbh

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutation of seilbh
radical lenition
seilbh sheilbh
after "an", t-seilbh

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

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