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

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
cúán	chúán	cúán pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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