foleagan

Irish

Etymology

From fo- +‎ leagan.

Noun

foleagan m (genitive singular foleagain, nominative plural foleaganacha)

1. (printing) underlay, underlap

Declension

Declension of foleagan (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative foleagan foleaganacha vocative a fholeagain a fholeaganacha genitive foleagain foleaganacha dative foleagan foleaganacha forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an foleagan na foleaganacha genitive an fholeagain na bhfoleaganacha dative leis an bhfoleagan don fholeagan leis na foleaganacha

Mutation

Mutated forms of foleagan

radical	lenition	eclipsis
foleagan	fholeagan	bhfoleagan

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) “foleagan”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “foleagan”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm