anastán

Irish

Etymology

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Noun

anastán m (genitive singular anastáin, nominative plural anastáin)

1. clumsy person

Declension

Declension of anastán (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative anastán anastáin vocative a anastáin a anastána genitive anastáin anastán dative anastán anastáin forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-anastán na hanastáin genitive an anastáin na n-anastán dative leis an anastán don anastán leis na hanastáin

Mutation

Mutated forms of anastán

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
anastán	n-anastán	hanastán	t-anastán

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