anastán

Irish

Etymology

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Noun

anastán m (genitive singular anastáin, nominative plural anastáin)

1. clumsy person

Declension

Declension of anastán

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative anastán anastáin Vocative a anastáin a anastána Genitive anastáin anastán Dative anastán anastáin

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-anastán na hanastáin Genitive an anastáin na n-anastán Dative leis an anastán don anastán leis na hanastáin

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
anastán	n-anastán	hanastán	t-anastán
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “anastán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN