eagán

See also: eagan and Eagan

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish eccán.[3]

Pronunciation

Noun

eagán m (genitive singular eagáin, nominative plural eagáin)

  1. craw, crop (part of a bird's alimentary tract)

Declension

Declension of eagán (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative eagán eagáin
vocative a eagáin a eagána
genitive eagáin eagán
dative eagán eagáin
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an t-eagán na heagáin
genitive an eagáin na n-eagán
dative leis an eagán
don eagán 		leis na heagáin

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • an scrogall is an t-eagán (“skin and bones”, literally “the neck and the crop”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of eagán
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
eagán n-eagán heagán t-eagán

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ “eagán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “ugán”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 774
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ecán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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