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See also: Korrigan
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Breton korrigan, from korr (“dwarf”) -ig (diminutive suffix) -an (hypocoristic suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]korrigan (plural korrigans)
- A long-haired nocturnal and often malevolent Breton fairy princess.
- 1945, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, HarperCollins, published 2019, →ISBN, page 9:
- A continental Celtic female fairy called a corrigan, malevolent, sometimes seductive.
Breton
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From korr (“dwarf”) -ig (diminutive suffix) -an (hypocoristic suffix)
Noun
[edit]korrigan m (plural korriganed)
Inflection
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Mutation of korrigan
Breton consonant mutation | ||||
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unmutated | soft | aspirate | hard | |
singular | korrigan | gorrigan | c'horrigan | unchanged |
plural | korriganed | gorriganed | c'horriganed | unchanged |
Derived terms
[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]korrigan m (plural korrigans, feminine korrigane)
Further reading
[edit]- “korrigan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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