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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish cuilén (“pup, cub”), from Proto-Celtic *kolignos (“whelp”). Cognate with Manx quallian and Scottish Gaelic cuilean.
Pronunciation
Noun
coileán m (genitive singular coileáin, nominative plural coileáin)
- pup, cub, whelp
- youth, scion (of person)
- trickster
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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| coileán
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choileán
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gcoileán
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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
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “coileán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cuilén”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language