camán

See also: caman

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cammán. By surface analysis, cam (“crooked”) +‎ -án.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈmaːn/

Noun

camán m (genitive singular camáin, nominative plural camáin)

1. (hurling) hurley, hurl, hurling stick

   Coimeád an camán i do láimh láidir

   Keep the hurley in your strong hand.

2. (music) quaver

Declension

Declension of camán (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative camán camáin vocative a chamáin a chamána genitive camáin camán dative camán camáin forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an camán na camáin genitive an chamáin na gcamán dative leis an gcamán don chamán leis na camáin

Derived terms

• camán gall (“chervil”)
• camán meall, camán míonla (“camomile”)
• camánacht (“(act of) hurley-playing”)

 

Related terms

• camógaíocht (“camogie”)
• iomáin, iomáint, iománaíocht (“hurling”)

 

Descendants

• → Fingallian: commaan
• → Yola: commaun, commawn, commane, comman

Mutation

Mutated forms of camán

radical	lenition	eclipsis
camán	chamán	gcamán

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) “camán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “camán”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “camán”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024