seachd

Scottish Gaelic

Scottish Gaelic numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: seachd     Standalone: a seachd     Ordinal: seachdamh     Ordinal abbreviation: 7mh     Personal: seachdnar     Multiplier: seachd-fillte

Etymology

From Old Irish secht, from Proto-Celtic *sextam, from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɛxk/

Numeral

seachd

1. seven

Derived terms

• Na Seachd-Reultan (“the Pleiades”)
• seachd-fillte (“sevenfold”)
• seachd-shliosach (“heptagon(al)”)
• seachdad (“seventy”)
• seachdamh (“seventh”)
• seachdnar (“seven (persons)”)

 

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
seachd	sheachd after "an", t-seachd
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “seachd”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 secht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language