seachtain

• seachtmhain (obsolete)

From Old Irish sechtmain, from Late Latin septimāna, from Latin septimus (“seventh”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃaxt̪ˠənʲ/

seachtain f (genitive singular seachtaine, nominative plural seachtainí)

1. week
   • 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.

• deireadh seachtaine
• seachtainiúil
• seachtanán