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

Finnish edit

Noun edit

suan

  1. genitive singular of suka

Anagrams edit

Gagauz edit

Noun edit

suan (definite accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])

  1. onion

Irish edit

Etymology edit

From Old Irish súan, from Proto-Celtic *sounos, from Proto-Indo-European *swépnos, from the root *swep- (to sleep).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

suan m (genitive singular suain)

  1. sleep, slumber

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

Mutation edit

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

Further reading edit

Mandarin edit

Romanization edit

suan

  1. Nonstandard spelling of suān.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of suǎn.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of suàn.

Usage notes edit

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Middle English edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Old English swan.

Noun edit

suan

  1. Alternative form of swan

Etymology 2 edit

From Old English swān.

Noun edit

suan

  1. Alternative form of swon

Wutunhua edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

suan

  1. Tibetan (including Wutun people)

Derived terms edit

References edit

  • Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun[1], University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN