draighean

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish draigen,[2] from Proto-Celtic *dragenā, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰergʰ-. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic droigheann, Manx drine, Breton/Welsh draen and Cornish dren.

Pronunciation

  • (Aran) IPA(key): /ˈd̪ˠɾˠaiən̪ˠ/[3]
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /d̪ˠɾˠiənˠ/[4]

Noun

draighean m (genitive singular draighin)

  1. blackthorn, sloe (Prunus spinosa)
    Synonym: airneog

Declension

Declension of draighean (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative draighean
vocative a dhraighin
genitive draighin
dative draighean
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an draighean
genitive an draighin
dative leis an draighean
don draighean

Derived terms

  • draighneach
  • draighneán

Mutation

Mutated forms of draighean
radical lenition eclipsis
draighean dhraighean ndraighean

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

References

  1. ^ “draighean”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “draigen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 70
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 165, page 62

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