fadharcán

Irish

Alternative forms

• adharcán

Etymology

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Noun

fadharcán m (genitive singular fadharcáin, nominative plural fadharcáin)

1. knot (in timber), protuberance (on tree), lump (on body)
2. corn (on foot); callosity
3. troublesome person

Declension

Declension of adharcán (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative adharcán adharcáin vocative a adharcáin a adharcána genitive adharcáin adharcán dative adharcán adharcáin forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-adharcán na hadharcáin genitive an adharcáin na n-adharcán dative leis an adharcán don adharcán leis na hadharcáin

Derived terms

• fadharcánach (“knotted, gnarled; callous; lumpy, protuberant”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of fadharcán

radical	lenition	eclipsis
fadharcán	fhadharcán	bhfadharcán

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fadharcán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN