ochlán

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From och (oh! alas!) +‎ -(l)án.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ochlán m (genitive singular ochláin, nominative plural ochláin)

  1. sigh, groan
  2. (act of) sighing, groaning, moaning, wailing
  3. cause of sorrow, calamity

Declension

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Declension of ochlán (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative ochlán ochláin
vocative a ochláin a ochlána
genitive ochláin ochlán
dative ochlán ochláin
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an t-ochlán na hochláin
genitive an ochláin na n-ochlán
dative leis an ochlán
don ochlán
leis na hochláin

Mutation

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Mutated forms of ochlán
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
ochlán n-ochlán hochlán t-ochlán

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

References

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  1. ^ ochlán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 252, page 128

Further reading

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