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airleacan

airleacan

See also: airleacán

Irish

Alternative forms

airleagadh

Noun

airleacan m ‎(genitive singular airelacain, nominative plural airelacain)

(banking, finance) loan (permission to borrow any item)
(finance) advance (amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due)

Declension

Declension of airleacan

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	airleacan	airleacain
Vocative	a airleacain	a airleacana
Genitive	airleacain	airleacan
Dative	airleacan	airleacain

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an t-airleacan	na hairleacain
Genitive	an airleacain	na n-airleacan
Dative	leis an airleacan don airleacan	leis na hairleacain

Synonyms

(loan): iasacht

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
airleacan	n-airleacan	hairleacan	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

"airleacan" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
“airlicud” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
“airleacan” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
Franz Nikolaus Finck, 1899, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, 18.