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Irish
Etymology 1
From Old Irish cáechán (“one-eyed person”), cáech (“blind in one eye”, adjective); equivalent to caoch (“blind”) + -án.
Noun
caochán m (genitive singular caocháin, nominative plural caocháin)
- purblind creature
- Synonym: caochánaí
- mole (burrowing insectivore)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
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Noun
caochán m (genitive singular caocháin, nominative plural caocháin)
- marsh rill; boghole
- (physiology) caecum
Declension
Mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| caochán
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chaochán
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gcaochán
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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) “caochán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cáechán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language