dealan

See also: dealán

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

Cognate with Irish dealán (“spark”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈd̥ʲal̪ˠan/[1]
  • Hyphenation: dea‧lan

Noun

dealan m (genitive singular dealain, plural dealanan)

  1. electricity

Declension

Declension of dealan (type I masculine noun)
indefinite
singular plural
nominative dealan dealanan
genitive dealain dhealanan
dative dealan dealanan; dealanaibh✝
definite
singular plural
nominative (an) dealan (na) dealanan
genitive (an) dealain (nan) dealanan
dative (an) dealan (na) dealanan; dealanaibh✝
vocative dhealain dhealanan

✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of dealan
radical lenition
dealan dhealan

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

References

  1. ^ Jenny Ladefoged, Peter Ladefoged, Alice Turk, Kevin Hind (5 February 1996) “Word List for Scottish Gaelic (Great Bernera, Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland)”, in The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive‎[1], Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics

Further reading

  • Colin Mark (2003) “dealan”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 215
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