gobadán
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From gob (“beak, bill; pointy nose”) + -adán.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gobadán m (genitive singular gobadáin, nominative plural gobadáin)
- sandpiper
- Synonym of gobachán (“sharp-featured person; beak-nosed person; sharp-tongued person; inquisitive, interfering, person; chatterer, gossip”)
- nosey parker
Declension
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Derived terms
[edit]- gobadán cosbhuí (“purple sandpiper”)
- gobadán glas (“green sandpiper”)
- gobadán na cuaiche (“bird that follows the cuckoo; pipit”)
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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gobadán | ghobadán | ngobadán |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gobadán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “gobadán”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “gobadán”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024