siansach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish síansach (“melodious”). By surface analysis, siansa ‎ -ach.

Adjective

siansach (genitive singular masculine siansaigh, genitive singular feminine siansaí, plural siansacha, comparative siansaí)

1. melodious
2. symphonic

Declension

Declension of siansach

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	siansach	shiansach	siansacha; shiansacha2
vocative	shiansaigh		siansacha
genitive		siansaí	siansacha	siansach
dative	siansach; shiansach1	shiansach; shiansaigh (archaic)	siansacha; shiansacha2
Comparative	níos siansaí
Superlative	is siansaí

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Mutated forms of siansach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
siansach	shiansach after an, tsiansach	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “siansach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “síansach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language