anás

See also: Appendix:Variations of "anas"

Irish

Etymology

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Noun

anás m (genitive singular anáis)

1. need, poverty
   1. needy person
   2. clumsy, awkward, person

Declension

Declension of anás (first declension, no plural)

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

Derived terms

• anásta (“needy; clumsy, awkward”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of anás

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
anás	n-anás	hanás	not applicable

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) “anás”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN