meascán

Irish

Etymology

From measc +‎ -án.

Noun

meascán m (genitive singular meascáin, nominative plural meascáin)

mass, lump
mixture; jumble, muddle

Declension

Declension of meascán

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	meascán	meascáin
Vocative	a mheascáin	a mheascána
Genitive	meascáin	meascán
Dative	meascán	meascáin

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an meascán	na meascáin
Genitive	an mheascáin	na meascán
Dative	leis an meascán don mheascán	leis na meascáin

Descendants

→ Yola: muskawn

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
meascán	mheascán	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “meascán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

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