seissed

Middle Irish

Alternative forms

• seised, sesed, sessed

Etymology

From Old Irish seissed.

Adjective

seissed

1. sixth
   • c. 1000, “The Tale of Mac Da Thó's Pig”, in Ernst Windisch, editor, Irische Texte, volume 1, published 1800, section 1:

     Is í sein int ṡeised bruiden ro·boi i n‑hErind in tan sin […]

     That is one of the six halls that were in Ireland at that time […]

     (literally, “That is the sixth hall that was […] ”)

Descendants

• Irish: seiseadh
• Scottish Gaelic: seiseadh

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
seissed	ṡeissed	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “seissed”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• sessed

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *swexstos, with -ed added by analogy with cóiced.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʲesʲeð/

Adjective

Old Irish ordinal numbers

<  5th	6th	7th  >
Cardinal : sé     Ordinal : seissed

seissed

1. sixth

Inflection

o/ā-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	seissed	seissed	seissed
Vocative	seissid* seissed**
Accusative	seissed	seissid
Genitive	seissid	seisside	seissid
Dative	seissed	seissid	seissed
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	seissid	seisseda
Vocative	seissedu seisseda†
Accusative	seissedu seisseda†
Genitive	seissed
Dative	seissedaib
Notes	*modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative **modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative † not when substantivized

The form seissid is the only attested inflected form. The trisyllabic forms shown in the table are expected to have undergone syncope and surface as *seiste (genitive singular feminine), *sestu (accusative/​vocative plural masculine), *sesta (nominative/​vocative/​accusative plural feminine/​neuter), *sestaib (dative plural), but these are not actually attested.

Descendants

• Middle Irish: seissed, seised, sesed, sessed
  • Irish: seiseadh
  • Scottish Gaelic: seiseadh

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
seissed	ṡeissed	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “seissed”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, page 248; reprinted 2017 (Please provide a date or year)