céalacan

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Apparently an alteration of earlier céadlongadh (from Middle Irish cétlongad (“fasting”), from Old Irish cét- (“first”) + longud, verbal noun of loingid (“to eat, swallow”)), though the details are obscure.

Pronunciation

Noun

céalacan m (genitive singular céalacain)

  1. fasting (abstaining from food), especially the period of the morning before one eats breakfast
    Synonym: troscadh
    ar céalacan ― while fasting; on an empty stomach

Declension

Declension of céalacan (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative céalacan
vocative a chéalacain
genitive céalacain
dative céalacan
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an céalacan
genitive an chéalacain
dative leis an gcéalacan
don chéalacan

See also

Mutation

Mutated forms of céalacan
radical lenition eclipsis
céalacan chéalacan gcéalacan

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

References

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 62

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