peileacán

Irish

Etymology

From Latin pelecānus, from Ancient Greek πελεκάνος (pelekános), assimilated to the suffix -acán.

Noun

peileacán m (genitive singular peileacáin, nominative plural peileacáin)

1. pelican

Declension

Declension of peileacán (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative peileacán peileacáin vocative a pheileacáin a pheileacána genitive peileacáin peileacán dative peileacán peileacáin forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an peileacán na peileacáin genitive an pheileacáin na bpeileacán dative leis an bpeileacán don pheileacán leis na peileacáin

Mutation

Mutated forms of peileacán

radical	lenition	eclipsis
peileacán	pheileacán	bpeileacán

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) “peileacán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “pelican”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024