ochlán

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From och (“oh! alas!”) +‎ -(l)án.

Pronunciation

Noun

ochlán m (genitive singular ochláin, nominative plural ochláin)

  1. sigh, groan
  2. (act of) sighing, groaning, moaning, wailing
  3. cause of sorrow, calamity

Declension

Declension of ochlán (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative ochlán ochláin
vocative a ochláin a ochlána
genitive ochláin ochlán
dative ochlán ochláin
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an t-ochlán na hochláin
genitive an ochláin na n-ochlán
dative leis an ochlán
don ochlán 		leis na hochláin

Mutation

Mutated forms of ochlán
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
ochlán n-ochlán hochlán t-ochlán

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

References

  1. ^ “ochlán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 252, page 128

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