cúán

See also: cuan, cuàn, cuán, cuān, and cúan

Old Irish

Etymology

cú +‎ -án

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuːaːn/

Noun

cúán ?

1. small dog
   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 49^b11

     cuán glosses canicula

Inflection

Masculine o-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	cúán	cúánL	cúáinL
vocative	cúáin	cúánL	cúánuH
accusative	cúánN	cúánL	cúánuH
genitive	cúáinL	cúán	cúánN
dative	cúánL	cúánaib	cúánaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• Cúán

Descendants

• Irish: cuán

Mutation

Mutation of cúán

radical	lenition	nasalization
cúán	chúán	cúán pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/

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

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cúán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language