colgán

Irish

Etymology

colg +‎ -án

Noun

colgán m (genitive singular colgáin, nominative plural colgáin)

swordfish

Declension

Declension of colgán

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	colgán	colgáin
Vocative	a cholgáin	a cholgána
Genitive	colgáin	colgán
Dative	colgán	colgáin

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an colgán	na colgáin
Genitive	an cholgáin	na gcolgán
Dative	leis an gcolgán don cholgán	leis na colgáin

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
colgán	cholgán	gcolgán
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “colgán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

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