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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From caor (“dry lump or clod of earth or turf”) + -án.
Pronunciation
Noun
caorán m (genitive singular caoráin, nominative plural caoráin)
- moor (region with poor, marshy soil, peat and heath)
Declension
Mutation
Irish mutation
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Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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caorán
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chaorán
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gcaorán
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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
Further reading
- “caorán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “caorán”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 117
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “caorán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN