sceach

Irish

Alternative forms
  • scéach

Etymology

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ʃcax]

Noun

sceach f (genitive singular sceiche, nominative plural sceacha)

  1. whitethorn, hawthorn
    1. thornbush
    2. brier
    3. bramble(bush)
  3. prickly, quarrelsome, person

Declension
Declension of sceach

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sceach sceacha
Vocative a sceach a sceacha
Genitive sceiche sceach
Dative sceach
sceich (archaic, dialectal)		 sceacha

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an sceach na sceacha
Genitive na sceiche na sceach
Dative leis an sceach
leis an sceich (archaic, dialectal)

don sceach
don sceich (archaic, dialectal)

 leis na sceacha

Synonyms
  • (whitethorn, hawthorn): sceah gheal
  • (whitethorn): uath (literary)
  • (brier): sceach thalún
  • (prickly, quarrelsome, person): sceachaire

Derived terms
  • sceachach (“full of hawthorns, of thorn-bushes; briery, brambly”, adjective)
  • sceach i mbéal bearna (“stop-gap”)
  • sceach i scornach (“frog in the throat”)
  • sceachóir (“haw”)
  • sceachra (“thorns, brambles”)

Further reading
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