coileán
Irish
Alternative forms
- cuileán, cuiléan (obsolete)
Etymology
From Old Irish cuilén (“pup, cub”), from Proto-Celtic *kolignos (“whelp”). Cognate with Manx quallian and Scottish Gaelic cuilean.
Pronunciation
Declension
Declension of coileán
First declension
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Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
- coileáinín
- coileán fir
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
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| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| coileán | choileán | gcoileán |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “coileán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cuilén”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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