béiceadán

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish béiccedán (literally “little clamourer”). Compare béic (“yell, shout”, intransitive verb).

Noun

béiceadán m (genitive singular béiceadáin, nominative plural béiceadáin)

1. puffball

   Synonym: bolgán béice, bolg béice

2. glutton

   Synonyms: blaochán, bleadrachán, bleaistéir, calcaire, cíocrachán, craosaire, fursaeir, gainéan, glutaire, gorb, graoisín, longaire, málaeir, slogaire, suthaire

3. yeller, bawler, blubberer

   Synonyms: béiceachán, béicire

Declension

Declension of béiceadán

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative béiceadán béiceadáin Vocative a bhéiceadáin a bhéiceadána Genitive béiceadáin béiceadán Dative béiceadán béiceadáin

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an béiceadán na béiceadáin Genitive an bhéiceadáin na mbéiceadán Dative leis an mbéiceadán don bhéiceadán leis na béiceadáin

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
béiceadán	bhéiceadán	mbéiceadán
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “béiceadán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “béiccedán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “béiceadán”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm