coileán

See also: Coileán, coilean, and còilean

Irish

Alternative forms

• cuileán, cuiléan (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Irish cuilén (“pup, cub”), from Proto-Celtic *kolignos (“whelp”). Cognate with Manx quallian and Scottish Gaelic cuilean.

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /kɪˈlʲaːn̪ˠ/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈkɪlʲɑːnˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkɨ̞lʲanˠ/

Noun

coileán m (genitive singular coileáin, nominative plural coileáin)

1. pup, cub, whelp
2. youth, scion (of person)
3. trickster

Declension

Declension of coileán

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative coileán coileáin Vocative a choileáin a choileána Genitive coileáin coileán Dative coileán coileáin

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an coileán na coileáin Genitive an choileáin na gcoileán Dative leis an gcoileán don choileán leis na coileáin

Derived terms

• coileáinín
• coileán fir

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
coileán	choileán	gcoileán
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “coileán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cuilén”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language