arcadán

Irish

Etymology

From arc +‎ -adán.

Noun

arcadán m (genitive singular arcadáin, nominative plural arcadáin)

Synonym of arc (“piglet; diminutive animal or person”)

Declension

Declension of arcadán

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	arcadán	arcadáin
Vocative	a arcadáin	a arcadána
Genitive	arcadáin	arcadán
Dative	arcadán	arcadáin

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an t-arcadán	na harcadáin
Genitive	an arcadáin	na n-arcadán
Dative	leis an arcadán don arcadán	leis na harcadáin

Mutation

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

Further reading

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “arcachán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

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