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Old Irish
Etymology
cú + -án
Pronunciation
Noun
cúán ?
- small dog
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 49b11
- cuán glosses canicula
Inflection
| Masculine o-stem
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Singular
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Dual
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Plural
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| Nominative
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cúán
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cúánL
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cúáinL
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| Vocative
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cúáin
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cúánL
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cúánuH
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| Accusative
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cúánN
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cúánL
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cúánuH
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| Genitive
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cúáinL
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cúán
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cúánN
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| Dative
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cúánL
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cúánaib
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cúánaib
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Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
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Derived terms
Descendants
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Lenition |
Nasalization
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| cúán
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chúán
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cúán
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
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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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References