patachán

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From now obsolete pata (“hare”) +‎ -achán;[4] pata is from Middle Irish patu, borrowed from either Brythonic (compare Welsh pathew (“dormouse”))[5] or Romance (compare French patte (“paw”)).[6]

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /ˌpˠɔt̪ˠəˈxɑ̃ːn̪ˠ/[7] (corresponding to the form potachán)

Noun

patachán m (genitive singular patacháin, nominative plural patacháin)

  1. leveret

Declension

Declension of patachán (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative patachán patacháin
vocative a phatacháin a phatachána
genitive patacháin patachán
dative patachán patacháin
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an patachán na patacháin
genitive an phatacháin na bpatachán
dative leis an bpatachán
don phatachán 		leis na patacháin

Mutation

Mutated forms of patachán
radical lenition eclipsis
patachán phatachán bpatachán

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

References

References
  1. ^ “potachán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ “patachán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  3. ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “patán”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 539
  4. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “patu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  5. ^ Pedersen, Holger (1909) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume I, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 511
  6. ^ Vendryes, Joseph (1959–96) Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique
  7. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 268, page 134

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