sabdán

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Middle French sultan (assimilated to the suffix -án), from Ottoman Turkish سلطان (sultan) and/or Arabic سُلْطَان (sulṭān).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaβdaːn/

Noun

sabdán m

1. sultan

Descendants

• Irish: sabhdán

Mutation

Mutation of sabdán

radical	lenition	nasalization
sabdán	ṡabdán	unchanged

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sabdán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language