meatán

Irish

Etymology

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Noun

meatán m (genitive singular meatáin)

1. (organic chemistry) methane

Declension

Declension of meatán

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative meatán Vocative a mheatáin Genitive meatáin Dative meatán

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an meatán Genitive an mheatáin Dative leis an meatán don mheatán

Derived terms

• meatánaigin
• meatánaigineas

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
meatán	mheatán	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “meatán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “meatán”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “meatán”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024