clochán

English

Etymology

From Irish clochán.

Noun

clochán (plural clocháns)

  1. An old dry-stone hut with a corbelled roof, commonly found on the southwest Irish coast.

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish clochán (“paved road or causeway”).[2] By surface analysis, cloch (“stone”) +‎ -án.

Pronunciation

Noun

clochán m (genitive singular clocháin, nominative plural clocháin)

  1. clochán (old dry-stone hut), beehive hut
    clochán coirceogach ― hive-shaped dry-stone hut
  2. (collective) stepping stones
  3. (obsolete) causeway

Declension

Declension of clochán (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative clochán clocháin
vocative a chlocháin a chlochána
genitive clocháin clochán
dative clochán clocháin
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an clochán na clocháin
genitive an chlocháin na gclochán
dative leis an gclochán
don chlochán 		leis na clocháin

Derived terms

  • an Clochán (“Clifden”)
  • Clochán an Aifir (“Giant's Causeway”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of clochán
radical lenition eclipsis
clochán chlochán gclochán

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

References

  1. ^ “clochán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “clochán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 154

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