sneachta

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish snechtae,[1] from Proto-Indo-European *snéygʷʰs.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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sneachta m (genitive singular sneachta, nominative plural sneachtaí)

  1. snow (precipitation)
    Níorbh iontaí liom an sneachta dearg ná é.Nothing would surprise me more. (literally, “Red snow would not be more surprising to me than that.”)

Declension

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
sneachta shneachta
after an, tsneachta
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), “snechta”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 19
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 92

Further reading

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