aosán
Irish
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish áesán (“fairies; sickness caused by fairies”). By surface analysis, aos (“people, folk”) + -án.
Pronunciation
edit- (Munster) IPA(key): /eːˈsˠɑːn̪ˠ/
- (Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈiːsˠɑːnˠ/, /ˈiːsˠɑːn̪ˠ/
- (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈiːsˠanˠ/, /ˈiːsˠan̪ˠ/
Noun
editaosán m (genitive singular aosáin, nominative plural aosáin)
Declension
editDeclension of aosán
Mutation
editIrish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
aosán | n-aosán | haosán | t-aosán |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
edit- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aosán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “áesán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language