serc

Middle English

Noun

serc

1. alternative form of serk

Old English

Noun

serċ f

1. alternative form of sierċe

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *sterkā.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʲeɾk/

Noun

serc f

1. love (both sacred and profane)
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 7^d8

     Do·beir-som ainm bráthre doib, arná·epret is ara miscuis in cúrsachad, act is ara seircc.

     He calls them brothers, lest they should say the reprimand is because of hatred for them, but it is because of love for them.

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 68^b9

     cia beith ar n‑acathar nech inna rétu inducbaidi in betha so, arnach·corathar i mmoth ⁊ machthad dia seirc ⁊ dia n‑accubur

     though it be that someone sees the glorious things of this world, that he may not be put in stupor and admiration by love for them and by desire for them

2. verbal noun of caraid

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	sercL	—	—
vocative	sercL	—	—
accusative	seircN	—	—
genitive	seirceH, sercae	—	—
dative	seircL	—	—

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• sercach
• sercaid
• sercaige

Descendants

• Irish: searc
• Scottish Gaelic: seirc

Mutation

Mutation of serc

radical	lenition	nasalization
serc	ṡerc	serc

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛrt͡s/
• Rhymes: -ɛrt͡s
• Syllabification: serc

Noun

serc n pl

1. genitive plural of serce