pocán

See also: pocan

Irish

Etymology 1

From poc (“buck”) +‎ -án.

Noun

pocán m (genitive singular pocáin, nominative plural pocáin)

1. billy goat

Synonyms

• poc gabhair

Descendants

• → English: puckaun, puckawn
• → Yola: puckawne, puckane, pucane

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Compare póca (“pocket”).

Noun

pocán m (genitive singular pocáin, nominative plural pocáin)

1. small bag
2. rind (of roast potato)
3. pollen basket (of bee)
4. (nautical) (net-)buoy

Synonyms

• (net-buoy): pocán eangaí

Derived terms

• gob an phocáin
• pocán barraigh
• pocán milseán
• práta pocáin

Declension

Declension of pocán (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative pocán pocáin vocative a phocáin a phocána genitive pocáin pocán dative pocán pocáin forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an pocán na pocáin genitive an phocáin na bpocán dative leis an bpocán don phocán leis na pocáin

Mutation

Mutated forms of pocán

radical	lenition	eclipsis
pocán	phocán	bpocán

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