castán
Irish
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish castán (compare Manx and Scottish Gaelic castan), from Latin castanea or Old French chastaigne (modern French châtaigne), with influence from the native suffix -án.
Noun
editcastán m (genitive singular castáin, nominative plural castáin)
- (Spanish, sweet) chestnut
Declension
editDeclension of castán
Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
edit- castán Eorpach (“sweet chestnut”)
- castán uisce (“water chestnut”)
Mutation
editIrish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
castán | chastán | gcastán |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
See also
edit- cnó capaill (“horse-chestnut”)
- geanmchnó (“chestnut”)
References
edit- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “castán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “castán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Further reading
edit- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “castán”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “castán”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024