See sceach in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"english": "stop-gap",
"translation": "stop-gap",
"word": "sceach i mbéal bearna"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"english": "frog in the throat",
"translation": "frog in the throat",
"word": "sceach i scornach"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"english": "full of hawthorns, of thorn-bushes; briery, brambly",
"tags": [
"adjective"
],
"translation": "full of hawthorns, of thorn-bushes; briery, brambly",
"word": "sceachach"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"english": "haw",
"translation": "haw",
"word": "sceachóir"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"english": "thorns, brambles",
"translation": "thorns, brambles",
"word": "sceachra"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "ga",
"2": "sga",
"3": "scé",
"t": "thornbush, whitethorn"
},
"expansion": "Old Irish scé (“thornbush, whitethorn”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "cy",
"2": "ysbyddad",
"t": "hawthorn, thornbush"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
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"2": "cel-pro",
"3": "*skʷiyats"
},
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}
],
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"forms": [
{
"form": "sceiche",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sceacha",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "declension-2",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "inflection-box-top",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "inflection-table-top",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "sceach",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sceacha",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "a sceach",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"indefinite",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "a sceacha",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"indefinite",
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "sceiche",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sceach",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sceach",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sceich",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"archaic",
"dative",
"dialectal",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sceacha",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "inflection-table-top",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "an sceach",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "na sceacha",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "na sceiche",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "na sceach",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "leis an sceach",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "leis an sceich",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"archaic",
"dative",
"definite",
"dialectal",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "don sceach",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "don sceich",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"archaic",
"dative",
"definite",
"dialectal",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "leis na sceacha",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "scéach",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
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"args": {
"1": "ga",
"10": "",
"11": "nominative plural",
"12": "sceacha",
"13": "",
"14": "",
"15": "",
"16": "",
"2": "noun",
"3": "genitive singular",
"4": "sceiche",
"5": "",
"6": "",
"7": "",
"8": "",
"9": "",
"cat2": "",
"f1request": "1",
"f4request": "1",
"g": "f",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"head": "",
"var": ""
},
"expansion": "sceach f (genitive singular sceiche, nominative plural sceacha)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "f",
"2": "sceiche",
"3": "~a"
},
"expansion": "sceach f (genitive singular sceiche, nominative plural sceacha)",
"name": "ga-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Irish",
"lang_code": "ga",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "ga",
"name": "Pome fruits",
"orig": "ga:Pome fruits",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"whitethorn, hawthorn"
],
"id": "en-sceach-ga-noun-PUud0WLV",
"links": [
[
"whitethorn",
"whitethorn"
],
[
"hawthorn",
"hawthorn"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "99 0 1",
"sense": "whitethorn, hawthorn",
"word": "sceach gheal"
},
{
"_dis1": "97 1 2",
"sense": "whitethorn",
"tags": [
"literary"
],
"word": "uath"
}
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "4 65 31",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Irish entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"more generally, brier, bramble-bush, thornbush"
],
"id": "en-sceach-ga-noun-FPKHWq6b",
"links": [
[
"brier",
"briar"
],
[
"bramble",
"bramble"
],
[
"thornbush",
"thornbush"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "3 95 3",
"sense": "brier",
"word": "sceach thalún"
}
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"prickly, quarrelsome, person"
],
"id": "en-sceach-ga-noun-K-KO7r6D",
"links": [
[
"prickly",
"prickly"
],
[
"quarrelsome",
"quarrelsome"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "1 3 96",
"sense": "prickly, quarrelsome",
"tags": [
"person"
],
"word": "sceachaire"
}
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ʃcax/"
}
],
"word": "sceach"
}
{
"categories": [
"Irish entries with incorrect language header",
"Irish feminine nouns",
"Irish lemmas",
"Irish nouns",
"Irish second-declension nouns",
"Irish terms derived from Old Irish",
"Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic",
"Irish terms inherited from Old Irish",
"Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"derived": [
{
"english": "stop-gap",
"translation": "stop-gap",
"word": "sceach i mbéal bearna"
},
{
"english": "frog in the throat",
"translation": "frog in the throat",
"word": "sceach i scornach"
},
{
"english": "full of hawthorns, of thorn-bushes; briery, brambly",
"tags": [
"adjective"
],
"translation": "full of hawthorns, of thorn-bushes; briery, brambly",
"word": "sceachach"
},
{
"english": "haw",
"translation": "haw",
"word": "sceachóir"
},
{
"english": "thorns, brambles",
"translation": "thorns, brambles",
"word": "sceachra"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ga",
"2": "sga",
"3": "scé",
"t": "thornbush, whitethorn"
},
"expansion": "Old Irish scé (“thornbush, whitethorn”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "cy",
"2": "ysbyddad",
"t": "hawthorn, thornbush"
},
"expansion": "Welsh ysbyddad (“hawthorn, thornbush”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ga",
"2": "cel-pro",
"3": "*skʷiyats"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Celtic *skʷiyats",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old Irish scé (“thornbush, whitethorn”), sometimes declined as an -iā-stem or a dental stem (genitive sciad), but also as a guttural stem, forming the genitive sciach. The dental stem may be original, judging from Welsh ysbyddad (“hawthorn, thornbush”), in which case the ancestor was Proto-Celtic *skʷiyats.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "sceiche",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sceacha",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "declension-2",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "inflection-box-top",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "inflection-table-top",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "sceach",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sceacha",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"indefinite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "a sceach",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"indefinite",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "a sceacha",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"indefinite",
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "sceiche",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sceach",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "sceach",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sceich",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"archaic",
"dative",
"dialectal",
"indefinite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "sceacha",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "inflection-table-top",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "an sceach",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "na sceacha",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "na sceiche",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "na sceach",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "leis an sceach",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "leis an sceich",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"archaic",
"dative",
"definite",
"dialectal",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "don sceach",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "don sceich",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"archaic",
"dative",
"definite",
"dialectal",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "leis na sceacha",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "scéach",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
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"10": "",
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"15": "",
"16": "",
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],
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{
"categories": [
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],
"glosses": [
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],
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[
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],
[
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"hawthorn"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"more generally, brier, bramble-bush, thornbush"
],
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[
"brier",
"briar"
],
[
"bramble",
"bramble"
],
[
"thornbush",
"thornbush"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"prickly, quarrelsome, person"
],
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[
"prickly",
"prickly"
],
[
"quarrelsome",
"quarrelsome"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ʃcax/"
}
],
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{
"sense": "whitethorn, hawthorn",
"word": "sceach gheal"
},
{
"sense": "whitethorn",
"tags": [
"literary"
],
"word": "uath"
},
{
"sense": "brier",
"word": "sceach thalún"
},
{
"sense": "prickly, quarrelsome",
"tags": [
"person"
],
"word": "sceachaire"
}
],
"word": "sceach"
}
Download raw JSONL data for sceach meaning in Irish (5.4kB)
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