portán faoilinne

Irish

Portán faoilinne

Etymology

Literally, “seagull crab”

Noun

portán faoilinne m (genitive singular portáin fhaoilinne, nominative plural portáin fhaoilinne)

1. spider crab (crab of the superfamily Majoidea)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
portán faoilinne	phortán faoilinne	bportán faoilinne
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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