suain

See also: Suain

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sˠuənʲ]

Noun

suain m

1. genitive singular of suan

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
suain	shuain after an, tsuain	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish súan (“slumber, sleep”), from Proto-Celtic *sounos, from Proto-Indo-European *swépnos.

Noun

suain f (genitive singular suaine, plural suainean)

1. slumber, sleep, narcosis

Usage notes

• Usually implies a deep sleep.

Synonyms

• cadal

Derived terms

• suain-lann (“dormitory”)
• suaineach (“sleepy”, adjective)
• suaineachan (“sofa”)
• suainealach (“hypnotic”, adjective)
• suainealaiche (“hypnotist”)
• suainealas (“hypnotism”)

 

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “suain”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “súan”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language