failléan

See also: faillean

Irish

Etymology

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Noun

failléan m (genitive singular failléin)

1. neglect
2. waste, loss

Declension

Declension of failléan

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative failléan Vocative a fhailléin Genitive failléin Dative failléan

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an failléan Genitive an fhailléin Dative leis an bhfailléan don fhailléan

Related terms

• faill
• faillí
• failligh
• faillitheach
• faillitheacht
• faillitheoir

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
failléan	fhailléan	bhfailléan
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “failléan”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN