cadhan

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish cadan (compare Scottish Gaelic cathan).

Noun

cadhan m (genitive singular cadhain, nominative plural cadhain)

1. brent goose, brant goose
2. barnacle goose

   Synonym: gé ghiúrainn

Declension

Declension of cadhan (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative cadhan cadhain vocative a chadhain a chadhana genitive cadhain cadhan dative cadhan cadhain forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an cadhan na cadhain genitive an chadhain na gcadhan dative leis an gcadhan don chadhan leis na cadhain

Mutation

Mutated forms of cadhan

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cadhan	chadhan	gcadhan

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) “cadhan”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cadan”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cadhan”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “cadhan”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024