castán

See also: castan, ĉastan, and častan

Irish

From Old Irish castán (compare Manx and Scottish Gaelic castan), from Latin castanea or Old French chastaigne (modern French châtaigne), with influence from the native suffix -án.

castán m (genitive singular castáin, nominative plural castáin)

Declension of castán (first declension)

forms with the definite article
case	singular	plural
nominative	an castán	na castáin
genitive	an chastáin	na gcastán
dative	leis an gcastán don chastán	leis na castáin

Mutated forms of *castán*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
castán	chastán	gcastán

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “castán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “castán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language