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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish étanán (“frontlet”). Equivalent to éadan (“front, face”) + -án.
Noun
éadanán m (genitive singular éadanáin, nominative plural éadanáin)
- headstall
Declension
Holonyms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| éadanán
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n-éadanán
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héadanán
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not applicable
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “éadanán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “étanán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language