Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

seannachie

/ˈʃænəxi/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sean-nachie
IPA: /ˈʃænəxi/

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A bard, genealogist, or storyteller in Gaelic culture.

Example Sentences

"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 conceit, folly, and falsehood, fermenting in the brains of some mad Highland seannachie."

Etymology

From Irish seanchaí and Scottish Gaelic seanchaidh, from Old Irish senchaid.

Origin

Source language: Irish

Word Breakdown

Root: seanchaí, seanchaidh, senchaid

Inflected Forms

seannachies (plural) schenachy (alternative) seannachy (alternative) senachie (alternative) senachy (alternative) sennachie (alternative) sennachy (alternative) shanachie (alternative) shanachy (alternative) shenachie (alternative)

Questions

How do you pronounce seannachie?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈʃænəxi/.
What does seannachie mean?: A bard, genealogist, or storyteller in Gaelic culture.
Where does seannachie come from?: It is traced to Irish.

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