beagán

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See also: beagan

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish becán m (“a little, small quantity”)[1] (compare Scottish Gaelic beagan, Manx beggan). By surface analysis, beag (“small, little”) +‎ -án.

Pronunciation

Noun

beagán m (genitive singular beagáin, nominative plural beagáin)

  1. a little, a bit (small amount)
  2. a few
    i mbeagán focal ― in a few words
    Níl ach beagán cairde aige.
    He has only a few friends.

Declension

Declension of beagán (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative beagán beagáin
vocative a bheagáin a bheagána
genitive beagáin beagán
dative beagán beagáin
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an beagán na beagáin
genitive an bheagáin na mbeagán
dative leis an mbeagán
don bheagán 		leis na beagáin

Derived terms

Adverb

beagán

  1. a little, somewhat

Mutation

Mutated forms of beagán
radical lenition eclipsis
beagán bheagán mbeagán

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “becán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 58
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 44
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 52

Further reading

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈpea̯kaːn/

Verb

beagán

  1. first-person singular present indicative of beahkit
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