urlacan

Irish

Alternative forms

• urlaicean

Etymology

From Old Irish urlacad, urlacan (“(act of) vomiting”), verbal noun of urlacaid (“vomits, rejects”, verb). By surface analysis, urlaic +‎ -an.

Noun

urlacan m (genitive singular urlacain, nominative plural urlacain)

1. verbal noun of urlaic
2. vomiting; vomit

Declension

Declension of urlacan (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative urlacan urlacain vocative a urlacain a urlacana genitive urlacain urlacan dative urlacan urlacain forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-urlacan na hurlacain genitive an urlacain na n-urlacan dative leis an urlacan don urlacan leis na hurlacain

Derived terms

• urlacan folamh m (“retching”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of urlacan

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
urlacan	n-urlacan	hurlacan	t-urlacan

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) “urlacan”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “urlacad, urlacan”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language