sreabhán

Irish

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish srebán (“streamlet”)[1] By surface analysis, sreabh +‎ -án.

Noun

sreabhán m (genitive singular sreabháin, nominative plural sreabháin)

  1. fluid (any state of matter which can flow; liquid)
  2. streamlet
Declension
Declension of sreabhán

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sreabhán sreabháin
Vocative a shreabháin a shreabhána
Genitive sreabháin sreabhán
Dative sreabhán sreabháin

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an sreabhán na sreabháin
Genitive an tsreabháin na sreabhán
Dative leis an sreabhán

don sreabhán

 leis na sreabháin

Noun

sreabhán m (genitive singular sreabháin, nominative plural sreabháin)

  1. Alternative form of sruán (“griddlecake”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
sreabhán shreabhán
after an, tsreabhán		 not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 srebán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading
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