féileacán

Irish

Etymology

Likely from féile meaning party or celebration. Older term was Old Irish etelachán (“little flying creature, butterfly”), from etelach (“flying, that flies”) +‎ -án.

Noun

féileacán m (genitive singular féileacáin, nominative plural féileacáin)

  1. butterfly

Declension
Declension of féileacán

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative féileacán féileacáin
Vocative a fhéileacáin a fhéileacána
Genitive féileacáin féileacán
Dative féileacán féileacáin

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an féileacán na féileacáin
Genitive an fhéileacáin na bhféileacán
Dative leis an bhféileacán

don fhéileacán

 leis na féileacáin

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
féileacán fhéileacán bhféileacán
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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