sleán

See also: slean

Irish

Alternative forms

• sleaghán (superseded)

Etymology

From sleá +‎ -án.

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ʃlʲɑːn̪ˠ/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ʃl̠ʲɑːnˠ/, /ʃl̠ʲɑːn̪ˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ʃl̠ʲaːnˠ/, /ʃl̠ʲaːn̪ˠ/

Noun

sleán m (genitive singular sleáin, nominative plural sleánta)

1. slane (spade for cutting turf or peat)

Declension

Declension of sleán

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative sleán sleánta Vocative a shleáin a shleánta Genitive sleáin sleánta Dative sleán sleánta

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an sleán na sleánta Genitive an tsleáin na sleánta Dative leis an sleán don sleán leis na sleánta

Derived terms

• sleán uchta, the breast slane, a variant, different from the basic (or foot) slane
• sleánadóir

Descendants

• English: slane, slean (Hiberno-English)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
sleán	shleán after an, tsleán	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• “sleán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 653
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sleán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 83