From Old Irish étanán (“frontlet”). Equivalent to éadan (“front, face”) + -án.
éadanán m (genitive singular éadanáin, nominative plural éadanáin)
- headstall
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “éadanán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “étanán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language