stán
Irish
Etymology 1
From Old Irish stán (“tin”), from Proto-Celtic *stagnos.
Noun
stán m (genitive singular stáin, nominative plural stáin)
Declension
Declension of stán
Derived terms
- bia stáin m (“tinned food”)
- bileog stáin f (“sheet of tin”)
- canna stáin m (“tin can”)
- cling stáin f (“tinny sound”)
- drol stáin m (“handle of tin can”)
- earraí stáin m pl (“tinware”)
- feadóg stáin f (“tin whistle”)
- gabha stáin m (“tinsmith”)
- mianadóir stáin m (“tin-miner”)
- scragall stáin m (“tinfoil”)
- stánach (“tin-bearing, stannic”, adjective)
- stánadóir m (“tinner, tinsmith”)
- stánaigh (“coat with tin; pack in tin(s)”, verb)
- stáncheárta f (“tinworks”)
- stánosclóir m (“tin-opener”)
- stánphláta m (“tin-plate”)
- stántáirgeach (“tin-bearing”, adjective)
- stánúil, stánmhar (“tinny; stannous”, adjective)
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Verb
stán (present analytic stánann, future analytic stánfaidh, verbal noun stánadh, past participle stánta)
Conjugation
conjugation of stán (first conjugation – A)
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
Derived terms
- stánaí m (“starer, gazer; brazen person”)
Etymology 3
Verb
stán (present analytic stánann, future analytic stánfaidh, verbal noun stánadh, past participle stánta)
- (transitive) Alternative form of stánáil (“beat, trounce; stuff”)
Etymology 4
From Old Irish stánaid (“stops, draws back, refrains from, desists from”, verb).
Verb
stán (present analytic stánann, future analytic stánfaidh, verbal noun stánadh, past participle stánta)
- (intransitive) Alternative form of staon (“stop, desist; abstain, forbear; draw back, flinch”)
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “stán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “stán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “stánaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- Irish terms inherited from Old Irish
- Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish masculine nouns
- Irish first-declension nouns
- Irish verbs
- Irish intransitive verbs
- Irish first-conjugation verbs of class A
- Irish transitive verbs
- ga:Chemical elements
- ga:Metals