sacannán

Irish

Etymology

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Noun

sacannán m (genitive singular sacannáin, nominative plural sacannáin)

1. sackcloth, hopsack

Declension

Declension of sacannán

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative sacannán sacannáin Vocative a shacannáin a shacannána Genitive sacannáin sacannán Dative sacannán sacannáin

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an sacannán na sacannáin Genitive an tsacannáin na sacannán Dative leis an sacannán don sacannán leis na sacannáin

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
sacannán	shacannán after an, tsacannán	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) “sacannán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN