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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
Cognate with Irish dealán (“spark”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtʲal̪ˠan̪ˠ/
- Hyphenation: dea‧lan
Noun
dealan m (genitive singular dealain, plural dealanan)
- electricity
Declension
Declension of dealan (type I masculine noun)
*obsolete form, was used until the 19th century
Derived terms
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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| dealan |
dhealan
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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
- Colin Mark (2003) “dealan”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 215