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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish clamán (whence Scottish Gaelic clamhan). By surface analysis, clamh (“mangy animal”) + -án
Pronunciation
Noun
clamhán m (genitive singular clamháin, nominative plural clamháin)
- buzzard (bird of the genus Buteo)
- (specifically) common buzzard (Buteo buteo)
- bald patch (of hair, fur, land)
- dodder (plant of the genus Cuscuta)
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| clamhán
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chlamhán
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gclamhán
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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
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “clamán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “claṁán”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 144
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “clamhán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 57