draighean

Irish

Alternative forms

• draghan, droighean

Etymology

From Old Irish draigen, from Proto-Celtic *dragenā, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰergʰ-. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic droigheann, Manx drine, Breton/Welsh draen and Cornish dren.

Pronunciation

• (Aran) IPA^(key): /ˈd̪ˠɾˠaiən̪ˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /d̪ˠɾˠiənˠ/, /d̪ˠɾˠiən̪ˠ/

Noun

draighean m (genitive singular draighin)

1. blackthorn, sloe (Prunus spinosa)

   Synonym: airneog

Declension

Declension of draighean (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative draighean vocative a dhraighin genitive draighin dative draighean forms with the definite article case singular nominative an draighean genitive an draighin dative leis an draighean don draighean

Derived terms

• draighneach
• draighneán

Mutation

Mutated forms of draighean

radical	lenition	eclipsis
draighean	dhraighean	ndraighean

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

Further reading

• “draighean”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “draigen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “draiġean”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 259
• Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 70
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “draighean”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 62