slaghdán

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish sláetán, from sláet (“illness, disease”).[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

slaghdán m (genitive singular slaghdáin, nominative plural slaghdáin)

  1. (medicine) a cold
    Tá slaghdán orm.
    I have a cold.

Declension

Declension of slaghdán (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative slaghdán slaghdáin
vocative a shlaghdáin a shlaghdána
genitive slaghdáin slaghdán
dative slaghdán slaghdáin
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an slaghdán na slaghdáin
genitive an tslaghdáin na slaghdán
dative leis an slaghdán
don slaghdán 		leis na slaghdáin

Mutation

Mutated forms of slaghdán
radical lenition eclipsis
slaghdán shlaghdán
after an, tslaghdán 		not applicable

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

References

  1. ^ “slaghdán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “slaetán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 196, page 98
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 70, page 30

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