préchán

Middle Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Perhaps from Old French preie (“prey”) +‎ -achán.

MacBain sees a connection between the Scottish Gaelic words preachan (“crow, etc.”) and preachan (“mean/bad orator”), but the Middle Irish words have different vowel length: préchán vs. prechoin (“public crier”). MacBain gives Latin praecō (“crier, auctioneer”) as the derivation for the “orator” word.[1][2][3]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpʲɾʲeːxaːn/

Noun

préchán m (genitive précháin, nominative plural précháin)

  1. bird of prey

Descendants

  • Irish: préachán (“crow”)
  • Scottish Gaelic: preachan (“crow”)

Mutation

Mutation of préchán
radical lenition nasalization
préchán phréchán
or unchanged 		préchán
pronounced with /b(ʲ)-/

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

References

  1. ^ MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “preachan”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎[1], Stirling, →ISBN, pages 281–282
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “préchán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “prechoin”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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