cloicheán

Irish

Etymology

From cloch +‎ -án.

Noun

cloicheán m (genitive singular cloicheáin, nominative plural cloicheáin)

1. prawn

Declension

Declension of cloicheán (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative cloicheán cloicheáin vocative a chloicheáin a chloicheána genitive cloicheáin cloicheán dative cloicheán cloicheáin forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an cloicheán na cloicheáin genitive an chloicheáin na gcloicheán dative leis an gcloicheán don chloicheán leis na cloicheáin

Derived terms

• cloicheán tíograch
• craicear cloicheán
• manglam cloicheán
• sailéad cloicheán

Mutation

Mutated forms of cloicheán

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cloicheán	chloicheán	gcloicheán

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) “cloicheán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cloicheán”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “cloicheán”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025