seacht

See also: seacht-

Irish

**Irish cardinal numbers**
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Cardinal : seacht Ordinal : seachtú Personal : seachtar, mórsheisear

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʃaxt̪ˠ/
(Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /ʃæxt̪ˠ/
Audio (file)

Numeral

seacht (triggers eclipsis)

(cardinal) seven
seacht gcapall ― seven horses

seacht n-uaire ― seven times
- 1906, E. C. Quiggin, “Áindrías an Ime”, in A Dialect of Donegal: Being the Speech of Meenawannia in the Parish of Glenties, page 196:
  
  Seachtmhain roimhe Shamhain chuaidh an Seónstanach siar ⁊ seacht ngearráin ⁊ péire cliabh air ghach gearrán fá choinne a chuid ime.
  A week before Samhain, Johnstone went back with seven geldings and a pair of panniers on each gelding for his butter.

Derived terms

seachtar (used to modify nouns referring to human beings)
seachtú (ordinal)

Mutation

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

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