Faolán

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish Fáelán. By surface analysis, faol (“wolf”) +‎ -án.

Proper noun

Faolán m (genitive Fhaoláin)

1. a male given name from Old Irish

Declension

Declension of Faolán (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative Faolán vocative a Fhaoláin genitive Faoláin dative Faolán forms with the definite article case singular nominative an Faolán genitive an Fhaoláin dative leis an bhFaolán don Fhaolán

Derived terms

• Faolánach (“person named Ó Faoláin or Ní Fhaoláin”)
• Mac Giolla Fhaoláin

  → English: Gilliland, Leland, McClellan, McLeland

• Ó Faoláin

Mutation

Mutated forms of Faolán

radical	lenition	eclipsis
Faolán	Fhaolán	bhFaolán

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 Corráin, Donnchadh, Maguire, Fidelma (1981) Gaelic Personal Names, Dublin: The Academy Press, →ISBN, page 92