seannachie
/ˈʃænəxi/
seannachie noun: a bard, genealogist, or storyteller in Gaelic culture.
Noun
seannachie (plural seannachies)
- A bard, genealogist, or storyteller in Gaelic culture.
- Take a glass of wine, Sir Arthur, and drink down that bead-roll of unbaptized jargon, that would choke the devil - why, that last fellow has the only intelligible name you have repeated - they are all of the tribe of Macfungus - mushroom monarchs every one of them; sprung up from the fumes of...1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary, Oxford University Press, published 2002, page 65
Forms of seannachie
| plural | seannachies |
|---|---|
| alternative form | schenachy |
| alternative form | seannachy |
| alternative form | senachie |
| alternative form | senachy |
| alternative form | sennachie |
| alternative form | sennachy |
| alternative form | shanachie |
| alternative form | shanachy |
| alternative form | shenachie |
Origin of seannachie
From Irish seanchaí and Scottish Gaelic seanchaidh, from Old Irish senchaid.
Questions about seannachie
- What does seannachie mean?
- Seannachie means a bard, genealogist, or storyteller in Gaelic culture.
- What part of speech is seannachie?
- Seannachie is a noun.
- How do you pronounce seannachie?
- Seannachie is pronounced /ˈʃænəxi/.
- What is the plural of seannachie?
- The plural of seannachie is seannachies.
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