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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish cadan (compare Scottish Gaelic cathan).
Noun
cadhan m (genitive singular cadhain, nominative plural cadhain)
- brent goose, brant goose
- barnacle goose
- Synonym: gé ghiúrainn
Declension
Mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| cadhan
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chadhan
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gcadhan
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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) “cadhan”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cadan”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cadhan”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “cadhan”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024