cathan

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish cadan (compare Irish cadhan).

Noun

cathan m (genitive singular cathain, plural cathain)

1. barnacle goose

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

cathan m pl

1. plural of cath

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
cathan	chathan
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cadan”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language