cathan

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish cadan (compare Irish cadhan).

Noun

cathan m (genitive singular cathain, plural cathain)

barnacle goose

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

cathan m pl

plural of cath

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
cathan	chathan
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cadan”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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