amhlán

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish amlán (“fool, simpleton”).

Noun

amhlán m (genitive singular amhláin, nominative plural amhláin)

1. boor; dolt

Declension

Declension of amhlán (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative amhlán amhláin vocative a amhláin a amhlána genitive amhláin amhlán dative amhlán amhláin forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-amhlán na hamhláin genitive an amhláin na n-amhlán dative leis an amhlán don amhlán leis na hamhláin

Derived terms

• amhlánta (“boorish; doltish”, adjective)

Related terms

• amhlántacht f (“boorishness”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of amhlán

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
amhlán	n-amhlán	hamhlán	t-amhlán

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) “amhlán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “amlán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language