maothán

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish maethán (“gristle, cartilage; a tender shoot, twig, etc.”), equivalent to maoth +‎ -án.

Noun

maothán m (genitive singular maotháin, nominative plural maotháin)

1. soft part; (anatomy) lobe
2. flank
   1. (anatomy) haw, third eyelid

      Synonym: maothán súile

   2. (pathology) disease of haw
3. tender shoot

Declension

Declension of maothán

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative maothán maotháin Vocative a mhaotháin a mhaothána Genitive maotháin maothán Dative maothán maotháin

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an maothán na maotháin Genitive an mhaotháin na maothán Dative leis an maothán don mhaothán leis na maotháin

Derived terms

• maothán cluaise (“earlobe”)
• maothán pairiatach (“parietal lobe”)
• maothán tosaigh (“frontal lobe”)
• maothán uisinneach, maothán na huisinne (“temporal lobe”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
maothán	mhaothán	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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