seinm

seinm

Irish

Etymology

Old Irish seinm

Noun

seinm f (genitive as verbal noun seinnte, genitive as regular noun seanma)

1. verbal noun of seinn
2. playing (of musical instrument)
3. warbling, chattering, chatter

Declension

As verbal noun

Declension of seinm

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural for this noun): Case Singular Nominative seinm Vocative a seinm Genitive seinnte Dative seinm

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an seinm Genitive na seinnte Dative leis an seinm don seinm

As regular noun

Declension of seinm

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural for this noun): Case Singular Nominative seinm Vocative a seinm Genitive seanma Dative seinm

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an seinm Genitive na seanma Dative leis an seinm don seinm

Mutation

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

References

• "seinm" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “seinm”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language