cúán

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See also: cuan, cuàn, cuán, cuān, and cúan

Old Irish

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Etymology

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+‎ -án

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cúán ?

  1. small dog
    • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 49b11
      cuán glosses canicula

Inflection

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Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative cúán cúánL cúáinL
Vocative cúáin cúánL cúánuH
Accusative cúánN cúánL cúánuH
Genitive cúáinL cúán cúánN
Dative cúánL cúánaib cúánaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Irish: cuán

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
cúán chúán cúán
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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