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sleán

sleán

See also: slean

Irish

Noun

sleán m (genitive singular sleáin, nominative plural sleánta)

  1. a spade for cutting turf; anglicised as slane or slean in Hiberno-English.

Declension

Related terms

  • sleán uchta, the breast slane, a variant, different from the basic (or foot) slane
  • sleánadóir

Mutation

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