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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish castán (compare Manx and Scottish Gaelic castan), from Latin castanea or Old French chastaigne (modern French châtaigne), with influence from the native suffix -án.
Noun
castán m (genitive singular castáin, nominative plural castáin)
- (Spanish, sweet) chestnut
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| castán
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chastán
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gcastán
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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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See also
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “castán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “castán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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