áilleagán

See also: àilleagan

Irish

Alternative forms

• áilleacán, áilleán, failleagán, fáilleagán

Etymology

From Middle Irish áillecán (“toy, plaything”).

Noun

áilleagán m (genitive singular áilleagáin, nominative plural áilleagáin)

1. toy
2. trinket
3. doll

Declension

Declension of áilleagán

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative áilleagán áilleagáin Vocative a áilleagáin a áilleagána Genitive áilleagáin áilleagán Dative áilleagán áilleagáin

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-áilleagán na háilleagáin Genitive an áilleagáin na n-áilleagán Dative leis an áilleagán don áilleagán leis na háilleagáin

Derived terms

• áilleagán drúise, áilleagán gnéis (“sex object”)
• áilleagán intreach (“whirligig, roundabout”)
• áilleagán mná (“useless pretty woman”)
• áilleagánacht

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
áilleagán	n-áilleagán	háilleagán	t-áilleagán
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “áilleagán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “áillecán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “áilleagán”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “áilleagán”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024