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

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
sruán shruán
after an, tsruán
not applicable
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), “srubán, srúbán?, sreabán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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