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sliogán

sliogán

Irish

Noun

sliogán m ‎(genitive singular sliogáin, nominative plural sliogáin)

shell, seashell
conch, shellfish
(artillery) shell

Declension

Declension of sliogán

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sliogán	sliogáin
Vocative	a shliogáin	a shliogána
Genitive	sliogáin	sliogán
Dative	sliogán	sliogáin

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an sliogán	na sliogáin
Genitive	an tsliogáin	na sliogán
Dative	leis an sliogán don sliogán	leis na sliogáin

Derived terms

sliogánach ‎(“testacean; shelled, testaceous”)
sliogán mara ‎(“scallop; seashell”)
sliogán trá ‎(“seashell”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
sliogán	shliogán after an, tsliogán	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

"sliogán" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
“slicén” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.