patachán
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From now obsolete pata (“hare”) + -achán;[4] pata is from Middle Irish patu, borrowed from either Brythonic (compare Welsh pathew (“dormouse”))[5] or Romance (compare French patte (“paw”)).[6]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]patachán m (genitive singular patacháin, nominative plural patacháin)
Declension
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Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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| patachán | phatachán | bpatachán |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]References
- ^ “potachán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ “patachán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “patán”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 539
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “patu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Pedersen, Holger (1909), Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume I, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 511
- ^ Vendryes, Joseph (1959–96), Lexique étymologique de l’irlandais ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique
Further reading
[edit]- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “pataċán”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 539
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “patachán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN