gealacán

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From geal (“white”) +‎ -acán. Compare Scottish Gaelic gealagan.

Pronunciation

Noun

gealacán m (genitive singular gealacáin, nominative plural gealacáin)

  1. white (of egg, of eye)
  2. (anatomy) kneecap

Declension

Declension of gealacán (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative gealacán gealacáin
vocative a ghealacáin a ghealacána
genitive gealacáin gealacán
dative gealacán gealacáin
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an gealacán na gealacáin
genitive an ghealacáin na ngealacán
dative leis an ngealacán
don ghealacán 		leis na gealacáin

Synonyms

Mutation

Mutated forms of gealacán
radical lenition eclipsis
gealacán ghealacán ngealacán

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

References

  1. ^ “gealacán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 222, page 113
  3. ^ Mhac an Fhailigh, Éamonn (1968) The Irish of Erris, Co. Mayo: A Phonemic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, section 52, page 14
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 408, page 134

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