súan

See also: suan, Suan, suàn, suān, süän, and suǎn

Galician

Verb

súan

1. third-person plural present indicative of suar

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *sounos, from Proto-Indo-European *swépnos, which is derived from the root *swep- (“to sleep”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suːa̯n/

Noun

súan m

1. slumber, sleep

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	súan	—	—
Vocative	súain	—	—
Accusative	súanN	—	—
Genitive	súainL	—	—
Dative	súanL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: suan
• Scottish Gaelic: suain

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
súan	ṡúan	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.