colgán

Irish

Etymology

colg +‎ -án

Noun

colgán m (genitive singular colgáin, nominative plural colgáin)

1. swordfish

Declension

Declension of colgán (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative colgán colgáin vocative a cholgáin a cholgána genitive colgáin colgán dative colgán colgáin forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an colgán na colgáin genitive an cholgáin na gcolgán dative leis an gcolgán don cholgán leis na colgáin

Mutation

Mutated forms of colgán

radical	lenition	eclipsis
colgán	cholgán	gcolgán

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) “colgán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN