urlacan

Irish

Alternative forms

• urlaicean

Etymology

From Old Irish urlacad, urlacan (“(act of) vomiting”), verbal noun of urlacaid (“vomits, rejects”, verb).

Noun

urlacan m (genitive singular urlacain, nominative plural urlacain)

1. verbal noun of urlaic
2. vomiting; vomit

Declension

Declension of urlacan

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative urlacan urlacain Vocative a urlacain a urlacana Genitive urlacain urlacan Dative urlacan urlacain

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-urlacan na hurlacain Genitive an urlacain na n-urlacan Dative leis an urlacan don urlacan leis na hurlacain

Derived terms

• urlacan folamh m (“retching”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
urlacan	n-urlacan	hurlacan	t-urlacan
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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