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síolaigh

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish sílaigidir.[2] By surface analysis, síol +‎ -aigh.

Verb

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síolaigh (present analytic síolaíonn, future analytic síolóidh, verbal noun síolú, past participle síolaithe) (transitive, intransitive)

  1. to propagate (cause to continue or multiply by generation; produce young; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants)
  2. to sow (disperse seeds), spread, seed
  3. to descend (proceed by generation or by transmission) [with ó ‘from’]
  4. to breed, reproduce
  5. to disseminate (sow and scatter like seed; become scattered)

Conjugation

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of síolaigh
radical lenition eclipsis
síolaigh shíolaigh
after an, tsíolaigh
not applicable

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

References

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  1. ^ síolaigh”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sílaigidir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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