meantán

Irish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Irish minntán, diminutive of minta (“small bird”).

Noun

meantán m (genitive singular meantáin, nominative plural meantáin)

titmouse

Declension

Declension of meantán

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	meantán	meantáin
Vocative	a mheantáin	a mheantána
Genitive	meantáin	meantán
Dative	meantán	meantáin

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an meantán	na meantáin
Genitive	an mheantáin	na meantán
Dative	leis an meantán don mheantán	leis na meantáin

Derived terms

meantán crochta (“Eurasian penduline tit”)
meantán croiméalach (“bearded tit”)
meantán cuircíneach (“crested tit”)
meantán dubh (“coal tit”)
meantán earrfhada (“long-tailed tit”)
meantán gorm (“blue tit”)
meantán lathaí (“marsh tit”)
meantán léana (“willow tit”)
meantán mór (“great tit”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
meantán	mheantán	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) “meantán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “minntán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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