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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish cáerthand.
Pronunciation
Noun
caorthann m (genitive singular caorthainn, nominative plural caorthainn)
- rowan, mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia)
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| caorthann
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chaorthann
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gcaorthann
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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
- “caorthann”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cáerthann”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “caorṫann”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 117
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “caorthann”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 86