féileacán

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Irish

Féileacán

Etymology

From Old Irish etelachán (“little flying creature, butterfly”), from etelach (“flying, that flies”) +‎ -án.

Pronunciation

Noun

féileacán m (genitive singular féileacáin, nominative plural féileacáin)

  1. butterfly

Declension

Declension of féileacán (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative féileacán féileacáin
vocative a fhéileacáin a fhéileacána
genitive féileacáin féileacán
dative féileacán féileacáin
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an féileacán na féileacáin
genitive an fhéileacáin na bhféileacán
dative leis an bhféileacán
don fhéileacán 		leis na féileacáin

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of féileacán
radical lenition eclipsis
féileacán fhéileacán bhféileacán

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Ó Cuív, Brian (1968) The Irish of West Muskerry, Co. Cork: A Phonetic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, page 65; reprinted 1988
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