sileadh

Irish

Pronunciation

• Noun:
  • (Munster, Galway) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɪlʲə/
  • (Mayo) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɪlʲuː/
  • (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɨ̞lʲu/
• Past autonomous verb form:
  • (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɪlʲəɡ/
  • (Galway) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɪlʲəvˠ/
  • (Mayo) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɪlʲuː/
  • (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɨ̞lʲu/
• Past habitual, past subjunctive and imperative verb forms:
  • (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɪlʲəx/
  • (Galway) IPA^(key): (before sé, sí, sibh, siad) /ˈʃɪlʲətʲ/, (elsewhere) /ˈʃɪlʲəx/
  • (Mayo) IPA^(key): (before sé, sí, sibh, siad) /ˈʃɪlʲətʲ/, (elsewhere) /ˈʃɪlʲuː/
  • (Ulster) IPA^(key): (before sé, sí, sibh, siad) /ˈʃɨ̞lʲətʲ/, (elsewhere) /ˈʃɨ̞lʲu/

Noun

sileadh m (genitive singular as substantive silidh, genitive as verbal noun silte)

1. verbal noun of sil
2. (medicine) discharge (pus or exudate from a wound or orifice), pus, matter

   Synonyms: brach, angadh

3. drip (act of dripping), leakage (act of leaking)
4. drop (act or instance of dropping), distillation (act of falling in drops)
5. flow (movement of a fluid)

   Synonym: sreabh

Declension

As a substantive:

Declension of sileadh (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative sileadh vocative a shilidh genitive silidh dative sileadh forms with the definite article case singular nominative an sileadh genitive an tsilidh dative leis an sileadh don sileadh

As a verbal noun:

Declension of sileadh (irregular, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative sileadh vocative a shileadh genitive silte dative sileadh forms with the definite article case singular nominative an sileadh genitive an tsilte dative leis an sileadh don sileadh

Verb

sileadh

1. inflection of sil:
   1. autonomous past indicative
   2. analytic past habitual
   3. analytic past subjunctive
   4. third-person singular imperative

Mutation

Mutated forms of sileadh

radical	lenition	eclipsis
sileadh	shileadh after an, tsileadh	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

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “siled”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “sileaḋ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 640
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sileadh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 40