meantán

Irish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Irish minntán, diminutive of minta (“small bird”).

Noun

meantán m (genitive singular meantáin, nominative plural meantáin)

1. titmouse

Declension

Declension of meantán

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative meantán meantáin Vocative a mheantáin a mheantána Genitive meantáin meantán Dative meantán meantáin

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an meantán na meantáin Genitive an mheantáin na meantán Dative leis an meantán don mheantán leis na meantáin

Derived terms

• meantán crochta (“Eurasian penduline tit”)
• meantán croiméalach (“bearded tit”)
• meantán cuircíneach (“crested tit”)
• meantán dubh (“coal tit”)
• meantán earrfhada (“long-tailed tit”)
• meantán gorm (“blue tit”)
• meantán lathaí (“marsh tit”)
• meantán léana (“willow tit”)
• meantán mór (“great tit”)

 

Mutation

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

Further reading

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