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Irish
Pronunciation
Noun
cochán m (genitive singular cocháin)
- straw (dried stalks considered collectively)
- Synonym: tuí
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| cochán
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chochán
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gcochán
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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
- “cochán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “coċán”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 158
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cochán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN