searg
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Scottish Gaelic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Irish sergaid, seircid (“becomes obsolete; shrinks, diminishes, contracts, wastes away; withers away; ebbs away; causes to diminish, lessen or shrivel up”, verb), from serg. Compare Manx shirg.
Verb[edit]
searg (past shearg, future seargaidh, verbal noun seargadh, past participle seargte)
Conjugation[edit]
Tense \ Voice | Active | Passive |
---|---|---|
Present | a' seargadh | -- |
Past | shearg | sheargadh |
Future | seargaidh | seargar |
Conditional | sheargadh | sheargtadh |
Mutation[edit]
Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
---|---|
Radical | Lenition |
searg | shearg after "an", t-searg |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading[edit]
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sergaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language