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aisling

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English

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Etymology

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From Irish aisling.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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aisling (plural aislings)

  1. A kind of Irish poem, developed during the late 17th and 18th centuries, in which Ireland appears to the poet in a vision in the form of a woman, lamenting the state of the Irish people and predicting the revival of their fortunes.

Anagrams

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish aislinge f (vision, dream).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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aisling f (genitive singular aislinge, nominative plural aislingí)

  1. dream, vision
  2. (poetry) vision poem
  3. verbal noun of aisling

Declension

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Declension of aisling (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative aisling aislingí
vocative a aisling a aislingí
genitive aislinge aislingí
dative aisling aislingí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an aisling na haislingí
genitive na haislinge na n-aislingí
dative leis an aisling
don aisling
leis na haislingí

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Verb

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aisling (present analytic aislingeann, future analytic aislingfidh, verbal noun aisling, past participle aislingthe)

  1. (rare, literary) dream of, see in a dream; have a vision of, see in a vision

Conjugation

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of aisling
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
aisling n-aisling haisling not applicable

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

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish aislinge f (vision, dream).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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aisling f (genitive singular aislinge, plural aislingean)

  1. dream, vision
  2. verbal noun of aisling

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Verb

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aisling (past aisling, future aislingidh, verbal noun aisling, past participle aislingte)

  1. (uncommon as a verb) dream

Synonyms

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References

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  1. ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎[1], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
  2. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap