patachán

Irish

From now obsolete pata (“hare”) +‎ -achán;^[4] pata is from Middle Irish patu, borrowed from either Brythonic (compare Welsh pathew (“dormouse”))^[5] or Romance (compare French patte (“paw”)).^[6]

(Munster) IPA^(key): /ˌpˠɔt̪ˠəˈxɑ̃ːn̪ˠ/^[7] (corresponding to the form potachán)

patachán m (genitive singular patacháin, nominative plural patacháin)

Declension of patachán (first declension)

forms with the definite article
	singular	plural
nominative	an patachán	na patacháin
genitive	an phatacháin	na bpatachán
dative	leis an bpatachán don phatachán	leis na patacháin

Mutated forms of *patachán*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
patachán	phatachán	bpatachán

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

^ “potachán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
^ “patachán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “patán”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 539
^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “patu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Pedersen, Holger (1909) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume I, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 511
^ Vendryes, Joseph (1959–96) Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique
^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 268, page 134