sruán

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish srubán, srúbán m (“thin cake of bread, small loaf; cockle”), possibly from srúb n (“snout, muzzle, beak, nose”).[1]

Noun

sruán m (genitive singular sruáin, nominative plural sruáin)

  1. griddlecake
    Synonyms: arán gridille, branrán, císte gridille
  2. cockle
    Synonyms: gruán, ruacan

Declension

Declension of sruán (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative sruán sruáin
vocative a shruáin a shruána
genitive sruáin sruán
dative sruán sruáin
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an sruán na sruáin
genitive an tsruáin na sruán
dative leis an sruán
don sruán 		leis na sruáin

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of sruán
radical lenition eclipsis
sruán shruán
after an, tsruán 		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. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “srubán, srúbán?, sreabán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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