duilleachán

See also: duilleachan

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish duillechán (“booklet, pamphlet; book”), from duille. By surface analysis, duilleach (“leafy, leaf-shaped”) +‎ -án (diminutive suffix).

Noun

duilleachán m (genitive singular duilleacháin, nominative plural duilleacháin)

1. leaflet

Declension

Declension of duilleachán (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative duilleachán duilleacháin vocative a dhuilleacháin a dhuilleachána genitive duilleacháin duilleachán dative duilleachán duilleacháin forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an duilleachán na duilleacháin genitive an duilleacháin na nduilleachán dative leis an duilleachán don duilleachán leis na duilleacháin

Mutation

Mutated forms of duilleachán

radical	lenition	eclipsis
duilleachán	dhuilleachán	nduilleachán

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) “duilleachán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “duillechán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language