aduantas

Irish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Compare aduain (“strange, unfamiliar”), aduaine (“strangeness, unfamiliarity”).

Noun

aduantas m (genitive singular aduantais)

1. strange feeling (of fear, loneliness) caused by unfamiliar surroundings

Declension

Declension of aduantas (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative aduantas vocative a aduantais genitive aduantais dative aduantas forms with the definite article case singular nominative an t-aduantas genitive an aduantais dative leis an aduantas don aduantas

Mutation

Mutated forms of aduantas

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aduantas	n-aduantas	haduantas	t-aduantas

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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