Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish étanán (“frontlet”). Equivalent to éadan (“front, face”) + -án.
Noun
éadanán m (genitive singular éadanáin, nominative plural éadanáin)
- headstall
Declension
Declension of éadanán (first declension)
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Holonyms
Mutation
Mutated forms of éadanán
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eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| éadanán
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n-éadanán
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héadanán
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not applicable
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “éadanán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “étanán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language