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seileán

seileán

Irish

Noun

seileán m ‎(genitive singular seileáin, nominative plural seileáin)

(wild) honey bee

Declension

Declension of seileán

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	seileán	seileáin
Vocative	a sheileáin	a sheileána
Genitive	seileáin	seileán
Dative	seileán	seileáin

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an seileán	na seileáin
Genitive	an tseileáin	na seileán
Dative	leis an seileán don seileán	leis na seileáin

Derived terms

cathair seileán ‎(“swarming-place of bees”)

Mutation

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

References

"seileán" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.