peileacán

Irish

Etymology

From Latin pelecānus, from Ancient Greek πελεκάνος (pelekános), assimilated to the suffix -acán.

Noun

peileacán m (genitive singular peileacáin, nominative plural peileacáin)

  1. pelican

Declension
Declension of peileacán

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative peileacán peileacáin
Vocative a pheileacáin a pheileacána
Genitive peileacáin peileacán
Dative peileacán peileacáin

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an peileacán na peileacáin
Genitive an pheileacáin na bpeileacán
Dative leis an bpeileacán

don pheileacán

 leis na peileacáin

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

Further reading
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “peileacán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • “pelican”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
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