sacannán

Irish

Etymology

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Noun

sacannán m (genitive singular sacannáin, nominative plural sacannáin)

1. sackcloth, hopsack

Declension

Declension of sacannán (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative sacannán sacannáin vocative a shacannáin a shacannána genitive sacannáin sacannán dative sacannán sacannáin forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an sacannán na sacannáin genitive an tsacannáin na sacannán dative leis an sacannán don sacannán leis na sacannáin

Mutation

Mutated forms of sacannán

radical	lenition	eclipsis
sacannán	shacannán after an, tsacannán	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) “sacannán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN