airleacan

See also: airleacán

Irish

Alternative forms

  • airleagadh

Etymology

Variant of airleagadh, from Old Irish airlicud.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑːɾˠl̠ʲəkənˠ/[2]

Noun

airleacan m (genitive singular airelacain, nominative plural airelacain)

  1. (banking, finance) loan (permission to borrow any item)
    Synonym: iasacht
  2. (finance) advance (amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due)

Declension

Declension of airleacan (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative airleacan airleacain
vocative a airleacain a airleacana
genitive airleacain airleacan
dative airleacan airleacain
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an t-airleacan na hairleacain
genitive an airleacain na n-airleacan
dative leis an airleacan
don airleacan
leis na hairleacain

Mutation

Mutated forms of airleacan
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
airleacan n-airleacan hairleacan 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), “airlicud”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 18

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