partán

See also: partan and Partan

Old Irish

Etymology

Unknown; possibly ultimately from a Paleo-European substrate language as Peter Schrijver cites; see Goidelic substrate hypothesis.[1]

Noun

partán m

  1. crab

Inflection
Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative partán partánL partáinL
Vocative partáin partánL partánuH
Accusative partánN partánL partánuH
Genitive partáinL partán partánN
Dative partánL partánaib partánaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants
  • Irish: portán
  • Manx: partan
  • Scottish Gaelic: partan

References
  1. Schrijver, Peter (2000) “Non-Indo-European Surviving in Ireland in the First Millennium AD”, in Ériu‎, volume 51, →JSTOR, pages 195-199
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