duilleachán

See also: duilleachan

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish duillechán (“booklet, pamphlet; book”), from duille. By surface analysis, duilleach (“leafy, leaf-shaped”) +‎ -án (diminutive suffix).

Noun

duilleachán m (genitive singular duilleacháin, nominative plural duilleacháin)

1. leaflet

Declension

Declension of duilleachán

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative duilleachán duilleacháin Vocative a dhuilleacháin a dhuilleachána Genitive duilleacháin duilleachán Dative duilleachán duilleacháin

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an duilleachán na duilleacháin Genitive an duilleacháin na nduilleachán Dative leis an duilleachán don duilleachán leis na duilleacháin

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
duilleachán	dhuilleachán	nduilleachán
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “duilleachán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “duillechán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language