portán

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See also: portan and Portán

Hungarian

Etymology

porta +‎ -n

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: por‧tán

Noun

portán

  1. superessive singular of porta

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish partán[1] (compare Manx and Scottish Gaelic partan).

Pronunciation

Noun

portán m (genitive singular portáin, nominative plural portáin)

  1. crab

Declension

Declension of portán

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative portán portáin
Vocative a phortáin a phortána
Genitive portáin portán
Dative portán portáin

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an portán na portáin
Genitive an phortáin na bportán
Dative leis an bportán

don phortán

leis na portáin

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
portán phortán bportán
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “partán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 82

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