piachán

Irish

Alternative forms

• píchán (obsolete)
• píochán

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /pʲiəˈxːɑːn/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈpʲiəxːɑːn/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈpʲiəxːan/

Noun

piachán m (genitive singular piacháin)

1. hoarseness, wheezing

   Synonyms: cársán, slócht

Declension

Declension of piachán (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative piachán vocative a phiacháin genitive piacháin dative piachán forms with the definite article case singular nominative an piachán genitive an phiacháin dative leis an bpiachán don phiachán

Mutation

Mutated forms of piachán

radical	lenition	eclipsis
piachán	phiachán	bpiachán

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

Further reading

• “piachán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “píchán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “pioċán”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 543
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “piachán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 62