áilleagán

See also: àilleagan

Irish

Alternative forms

• áilleacán, áilleán, failleagán, fáilleagán

Etymology

From Middle Irish áillecán (“toy, plaything”).

Noun

áilleagán m (genitive singular áilleagáin, nominative plural áilleagáin)

1. toy
2. trinket
3. doll

Declension

Declension of áilleagán (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative áilleagán áilleagáin vocative a áilleagáin a áilleagána genitive áilleagáin áilleagán dative áilleagán áilleagáin forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-áilleagán na háilleagáin genitive an áilleagáin na n-áilleagán dative leis an áilleagán don áilleagán leis na háilleagáin

Derived terms

• áilleagán drúise, áilleagán gnéis (“sex object”)
• áilleagán intreach (“whirligig, roundabout”)
• áilleagán mná (“useless pretty woman”)
• áilleagánacht

Mutation

Mutated forms of áilleagán

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
áilleagán	n-áilleagán	háilleagán	t-áilleagán

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “áilleagán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “áillecán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “áilleagán”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “áilleagán”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025