scoilteán

Irish

Alternative forms

• (cleft object; cleft stick): scoilteog f

Etymology

From Old Irish scoiltén. By surface analysis, scoilt (“split, crack, cleavage, fissure”) +‎ -án (diminutive suffix).

Noun

scoilteán m (genitive singular scoilteáin, nominative plural scoilteáin)

1. diminutive of scoilt
2. (small) crack, fissure
3. cleft object; cleft stick
4. potato set

Declension

Declension of scoilteán (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative scoilteán scoilteáin vocative a scoilteáin a scoilteána genitive scoilteáin scoilteán dative scoilteán scoilteáin forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an scoilteán na scoilteáin genitive an scoilteáin na scoilteán dative leis an scoilteán don scoilteán leis na scoilteáin

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “scoilteán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “scoiltén”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language