gandal

Irish

From Old Irish ganndal m (“gander”), borrowed from Old English ganra (modern gander).

gandal m (genitive singular gandail, nominative plural gandail)

Declension of gandal (first declension)

forms with the definite article
case	singular	plural
nominative	an gandal	na gandail
genitive	an ghandail	na ngandal
dative	leis an ngandal don ghandal	leis na gandail

Mutated forms of *gandal*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
gandal	ghandal	ngandal

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) “gandal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ganndal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “gandal”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
“gandal”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024