corcán

Irish

Metathesized from crocán, from croca (“crock”) +‎ -án, from Middle English crokke, from Old English crocca, from Proto-West Germanic *kroggō.

(Munster) IPA^(key): /kəɾˠˈkɑːn̪ˠ/^[2]
(Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈkoɾˠkɑːnˠ/ ~ /ˈkɞɾˠkɑːnˠ/^[3]; /ˈkɾˠokɑːnˠ/ (corresponding to the form crocán)^[4]
(Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɾˠkɑnˠ/^[5]

corcán m (genitive singular corcáin, nominative plural corcáin)

Declension of corcán (first declension)

forms with the definite article
	singular	plural
nominative	an corcán	na corcáin
genitive	an chorcáin	na gcorcán
dative	leis an gcorcán don chorcán	leis na corcáin

Mutated forms of *corcán*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
corcán	chorcán	gcorcán

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

^ “corcán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
^ Ó Cuív, Brian (1968) The Irish of West Muskerry, Co. Cork: A Phonetic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, section 173, page 50; reprinted 1988
^ Stockman, Gerard (1974) The Irish of Achill, Co. Mayo (Studies in Irish Language and Literature, Department of Celtic, Q.U.B.; vol. 2), Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen’s University of Belfast, § 498a, page 53
^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 158
^ Hamilton, John Noel (1974) A Phonetic Study of the Irish of Tory Island, Co. Donegal (Studies in Irish Language and Literature, Department of Celtic, Q.U.B.; vol. 3), Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen’s University Belfast, page 260