féileacán

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish etelachán (“little flying creature, butterfly”), from etelach (“flying, that flies”) +‎ -án.

Noun

féileacán m (genitive singular féileacáin, nominative plural féileacáin)

  1. butterfly

Declension
Declension of féileacán

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative féileacán féileacáin
Vocative a fhéileacáin a fhéileacána
Genitive féileacáin féileacán
Dative féileacán féileacáin

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an féileacán na féileacáin
Genitive an fhéileacáin na bhféileacán
Dative leis an bhféileacán

don fhéileacán

 leis na féileacáin

Derived terms
  • féileacán oíche

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
féileacán fhéileacán bhféileacán
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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