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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish draigen, from Proto-Celtic *dragenā, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰergʰ-. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic droigheann, Manx drine, Breton/Welsh draen and Cornish dren.
Pronunciation
Noun
draighean m (genitive singular draighin)
- blackthorn, sloe (Prunus spinosa)
- Synonym: airneog
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| draighean
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dhraighean
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ndraighean
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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
- “draighean”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “draigen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “draiġean”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 259
- Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 70
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “draighean”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 62