castán

See also: castan, ĉastan, and častan

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish castán (compare Manx and Scottish Gaelic castan), from Latin castanea or Old French chastaigne (modern French châtaigne), with influence from the native suffix -án.

Noun

castán m (genitive singular castáin, nominative plural castáin)

1. (Spanish, sweet) chestnut

Declension

Declension of castán (first declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative castán castáin vocative a chastáin a chastána genitive castáin castán dative castán castáin forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an castán na castáin genitive an chastáin na gcastán dative leis an gcastán don chastán leis na castáin

Derived terms

• castán Eorpach (“sweet chestnut”)
• castán uisce (“water chestnut”)

See also

• cnó capaill (“horse-chestnut”)
• geanmchnó (“chestnut”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of castán

radical	lenition	eclipsis
castán	chastán	gcastán

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), “castán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “castán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “castán”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “castán”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026