sochaí

Irish

Alternative forms
  • sochaidhe

Etymology

From Old Irish sochaide (“crowd”)[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

sochaí f (genitive singular sochaí, nominative plural sochaithe)

  1. many
  2. host, multitude
  3. (sociology) social community, society

Declension
Declension of sochaí

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sochaí sochaithe
Vocative a shochaí a shochaithe
Genitive sochaí sochaithe
Dative sochaí sochaithe

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an tsochaí na sochaithe
Genitive na sochaí na sochaithe
Dative leis an tsochaí

don tsochaí

 leis na sochaithe

Derived terms

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
sochaí shochaí
after an, tsochaí		 not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Hickey, Raymond (2012) “Internally- and Externally-Motivated Language Change”, in Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre, Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy, editors, The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics, Wiley, →ISBN, pages 387–408

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