meantán

Irish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Irish minntán, diminutive of minta (“small bird”).

Noun

meantán m (genitive singular meantáin, nominative plural meantáin)

1. titmouse

Declension

Declension of meantán (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative meantán meantáin vocative a mheantáin a mheantána genitive meantáin meantán dative meantán meantáin forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an meantán na meantáin genitive an mheantáin na meantán dative leis an meantán don mheantán leis na meantáin

Derived terms

• meantán crochta (“Eurasian penduline tit”)
• meantán croiméalach (“bearded tit”)
• meantán cuircíneach (“crested tit”)
• meantán dubh (“coal tit”)
• meantán earrfhada (“long-tailed tit”)
• meantán gorm (“blue tit”)
• meantán lathaí (“marsh tit”)
• meantán léana (“willow tit”)
• meantán mór (“great tit”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of meantán

radical	lenition	eclipsis
meantán	mheantán	not applicable

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