maothán

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish maethán (“gristle, cartilage; a tender shoot, twig, etc.”), equivalent to maoth +‎ -án.

Noun

maothán m (genitive singular maotháin, nominative plural maotháin)

1. soft part; (anatomy) lobe
2. flank
   1. (anatomy) haw, third eyelid

      Synonym: maothán súile

   2. (pathology) disease of haw
3. tender shoot

Declension

Declension of maothán (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative maothán maotháin vocative a mhaotháin a mhaothána genitive maotháin maothán dative maothán maotháin forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an maothán na maotháin genitive an mhaotháin na maothán dative leis an maothán don mhaothán leis na maotháin

Derived terms

• maothán cluaise (“earlobe”)
• maothán pairiatach (“parietal lobe”)
• maothán tosaigh (“frontal lobe”)
• maothán uisinneach, maothán na huisinne (“temporal lobe”)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of maothán

radical	lenition	eclipsis
maothán	mhaothán	not applicable

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “maothán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “maethán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “maothán”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “maothán”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024