amrán

Middle Irish

Etymology

amar (“singing, wailing, moaning”) +‎ -án

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaβ̃raːn/

Noun

amrán m

1. singing, song

Descendants

• Irish: amhrán
• Manx: arrane
• Scottish Gaelic: òran, amhran

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
amrán	unchanged	n-amrán
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “amrán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language