Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish urlacad, urlacan (“(act of) vomiting”), verbal noun of urlacaid (“vomits, rejects”, verb). By surface analysis, urlaic + -an.
Noun
urlacan m (genitive singular urlacain, nominative plural urlacain)
- verbal noun of urlaic
- vomiting; vomit
Declension
Declension of urlacan (first declension)
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Derived terms
- urlacan folamh m (“retching”)
Mutation
Mutated forms of urlacan
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eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| urlacan
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n-urlacan
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hurlacan
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t-urlacan
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “urlacan”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “urlacad, urlacan”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language