níochán

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From nigh +‎ -achán.

Pronunciation

Noun

níochán m (genitive singular níocháin)

  1. (act of) washing; wash, laundry
  2. clothes washed or to be washed
  3. (Cois Fharraige, Ulster) verbal noun of nigh
    • 1894 March, Peadar Mac Fionnlaoigh, “An rí nach robh le fagháil bháis”, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge, volume 1:5, Dublin: Gaelic Union, pages 185–88:
      Chonnaic sé cailín ag nigheachán i sruthán le cois an bhealaigh mhóir ⁊ chuir sé an tiománach síos ag fiafraighe di a’ bpósfadh sí é.
      He saw a girl washing in a stream by the roadside, and he sent his driver down to ask her if she would marry him.

Declension

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

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ “níochán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 175, page 67

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