sruán

Irish

Alternative forms

• sreabhán, srubhán, srubhóg, sruthán

Etymology

From Old Irish srubán, srúbán m (“thin cake of bread, small loaf; cockle”), possibly from srúb n (“snout, muzzle, beak, nose”).^[1]

Noun

sruán m (genitive singular sruáin, nominative plural sruáin)

1. griddlecake

   Synonyms: arán gridille, branrán, císte gridille

2. cockle

   Synonyms: gruán, ruacan

Declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative sruán sruáin Vocative a shruáin a shruána Genitive sruáin sruán Dative sruán sruáin

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an sruán na sruáin Genitive an tsruáin na sruán Dative leis an sruán don sruán leis na sruáin

Declension of sruán

First declension

Derived terms

• sruán coirce (“oatcake”)

Related terms

• báisín, nuitín (“cockle-shell”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
sruán	shruán after an, tsruán	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

1. Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “srubán, srúbán?, sreabán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sruán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN