tionlacan

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

An alteration of Middle Irish tinlucun, which was metathesized from Old Irish tindnacol.[2] Doublet of tíolacadh. By surface analysis, tionlaic +‎ -an.

Noun

tionlacan m (genitive singular as substantive tionlacain, genitive as verbal noun tionlactha, nominative plural tionlacain)

  1. verbal noun of tionlaic
  2. accompaniment (music giving support or adding to the background; that which accompanies)
  3. escort (group of people who provide safety)
  4. (military) convoy

Declension

As a substantive:

Declension of tionlacan (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative tionlacan tionlacain
vocative a thionlacain a thionlacana
genitive tionlacain tionlacan
dative tionlacan tionlacain
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an tionlacan na tionlacain
genitive an tionlacain na dtionlacan
dative leis an tionlacan
don tionlacan 		leis na tionlacain

As a verbal noun:

Declension of tionlacan (irregular, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative tionlacan
vocative a thionlacan
genitive tionactha
dative tionlacan
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an tionlacan
genitive an tionactha
dative leis an tionlacan
don tionlacan

Mutation

Mutated forms of tionlacan
radical lenition eclipsis
tionlacan thionlacan dtionlacan

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

References

  1. ^ “tionlacan”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tindnacol”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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