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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish dubán (“hook”). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic dubhan. Appears to be derived from dubh (“black”), though the semantic development is unclear. Perhaps “black thing” > “hook” (because iron hooks are black) > “kidney” (because kidneys are roughly hook-shaped).
Pronunciation
Noun
duán m (genitive singular duáin, nominative plural duáin)
- kidney
- fishhook
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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| duán
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dhuán
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nduán
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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
- “duán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 dubán ‘fish-hook’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 dubán ‘kidney’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “duán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 75