eagán

See also: eagan and Eagan

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish eccán.[3]

Pronunciation

  • (Aran) IPA(key): /ˈɪɡɑːn/[4] (corresponding to the form iogán)
  • (Cois Fharraige, Mayo) IPA(key): /ˈʊɡɑːn̪ˠ/[5][6] (corresponding to the form iogán)

Noun

eagán m (genitive singular eagáin, nominative plural eagáin)

  1. craw, crop (part of a bird's alimentary tract)

Declension

Declension of eagán (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative eagán eagáin
vocative a eagáin a eagána
genitive eagáin eagán
dative eagán eagáin
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an t-eagán na heagáin
genitive an eagáin na n-eagán
dative leis an eagán
don eagán 		leis na heagáin

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • an scrogall is an t-eagán (“skin and bones”, literally “the neck and the crop”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of eagán
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
eagán n-eagán heagán 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. ^ “eagán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “ugán”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 774
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ecán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 141
  5. ^ de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1975) The Irish of Cois Fhairrge, Co. Galway: A Phonetic Study, revised edition, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, § 271, page 53
  6. ^ Mhac an Fhailigh, Éamonn (1968) The Irish of Erris, Co. Mayo: A Phonemic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, section 130, page 31

Further reading

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