béiceadán

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish béiccedán (literally “little clamourer”). By surface analysis, béic (“to yell, shout”) +‎ -adán.

Noun

béiceadán m (genitive singular béiceadáin, nominative plural béiceadáin)

1. puffball

   Synonyms: bolgán béice, bolg béice

2. glutton

   Synonyms: blaochán, bleadrachán, calcaire, cíocrachán, craosaire, gainéan, glutaire, gorb, graoisín, longaire, málaeir, slogaire, suthaire

3. yeller, bawler, blubberer

   Synonyms: béiceachán, béicire

Declension

Declension of béiceadán (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative béiceadán béiceadáin vocative a bhéiceadáin a bhéiceadána genitive béiceadáin béiceadán dative béiceadán béiceadáin forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an béiceadán na béiceadáin genitive an bhéiceadáin na mbéiceadán dative leis an mbéiceadán don bhéiceadán leis na béiceadáin

Mutation

Mutated forms of béiceadán

radical	lenition	eclipsis
béiceadán	bhéiceadán	mbéiceadán

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) “béiceadán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “béiccedán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “béiceadán”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm