sleán

See also: slean

Irish

Alternative forms

• sleaghán (superseded)

Etymology

From sleá +‎ -án.

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ʃlʲɑːn̪ˠ/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ʃl̠ʲɑːnˠ/, /ʃl̠ʲɑːn̪ˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ʃl̠ʲaːnˠ/, /ʃl̠ʲaːn̪ˠ/

Noun

sleán m (genitive singular sleáin, nominative plural sleánta)

1. slane (spade for cutting turf or peat)

Declension

Declension of sleán (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative sleán sleánta vocative a shleáin a shleánta genitive sleáin sleánta dative sleán sleánta forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an sleán na sleánta genitive an tsleáin na sleánta dative leis an sleán don sleán leis na sleánta

Derived terms

• sleán uchta, the breast slane, a variant, different from the basic (or foot) slane
• sleánadóir

Descendants

• English: slane, slean (Hiberno-English)

Mutation

Mutated forms of sleán

radical	lenition	eclipsis
sleán	shleán after an, tsleán	not applicable

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

Further reading

• “sleán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 653
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sleán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 83