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Breton

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Etymology

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From Middle Breton oun, from Proto-Celtic *oβnus (fear) (compare Welsh ofn, Cornish own, Old Irish ómun).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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aon m

  1. fear

Irish

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Pronunciation

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Numeral:

Determiner:

Etymology 1

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From Old Irish óen,[5] from Proto-Celtic *oinos (compare Welsh un), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos (compare Latin ūnus, Old English ān).

Irish numbers (edit)
10
[a], [b] ←  0 1 2  →  10  → 
    Cardinal: aon
    Ordinal: céad, aonú
    Ordinal abbreviation:
    Personal: aonar
    Attributive: amháin

Numeral

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aon (triggers lenition except of d, s, and t)

  1. one
Usage notes
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  • Used independently; cannot be used before nouns without the further modifier amháin (only) (with which it is not required), the definite article, or a possessive determiner (when used by itself with nouns, it means "any"; see following section). Unlike 2–10 and 12, aon can be used to refer to people; the personal form aonar is largely confined in the meaning of “one person” to literary usage and is usually used idiomatically to mean “alone” or “single”. When used independently, it is always preceded by the particle a, which mutates it to haon:
  • a haon, a dó, a trí...one, two, three...
  • bus a haonbus number one
  • a haon a chlogone o’clock
But:
  • (aon)amháinone day
  • aon chrann amháin/crann amháinone tree
  • an t-aon duinethe one person
  • m'aon charamy one friend
Derived terms
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See also
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  • amháin
  • duine (used as a pronoun to refer to human beings)
  • ceann (used as a pronoun to refer to non-humans)
  • céad (ordinal)

Determiner

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aon (triggers lenition except of d, s, and t)

  1. any
    aon bhádany boat

Noun

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aon m (genitive singular aoin, nominative plural aonta)

  1. (card games) ace
Declension
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Declension of aon (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative aon aonta
vocative a aoin a aonta
genitive aoin aonta
dative aon aonta
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an t-aon na haonta
genitive an aoin na n-aonta
dative leis an aon
don aon
leis na haonta
See also
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Playing cards in Irish · cártaí imeartha (layout · text)
aon trí ceathair cúig seacht
ocht naoi deich cuireata banríon fear na gcrúb, buachaill mór

Etymology 2

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Alternative forms

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Noun

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aon m (genitive singular aoin, nominative plural aoin)

  1. (masonry) breast, chimneypiece
  2. (nautical, of boat)) front part of the gunwale
Declension
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Declension of aon (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative aon aoin
vocative a aoin a aona
genitive aoin aon
dative aon aoin
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an t-aon na haoin
genitive an aoin na n-aon
dative leis an aon
don aon
leis na haoin

Mutation

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Mutated forms of aon
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
aon n-aon haon t-aon

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

References

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  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 89, page 49
  2. 2.0 2.1 de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1975) The Irish of Cois Fhairrge, Co. Galway: A Phonetic Study, revised edition, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, § 375, page 84
  3. 3.0 3.1 Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 72, page 31
  4. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 94
  5. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “óen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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Manx

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Noun

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aon f (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

  1. Alternative form of awin

Scottish Gaelic

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Scottish Gaelic numbers (edit)
10
 ←  0 1 2  →  10  → 
    Cardinal: aon
    Standalone: a h-aon
    Ordinal: ciad
    Ordinal abbreviation: 1d
    Personal: aonar
    Multiplier: aon-fhillte, singilte
    Fractional: iomlan

Etymology

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From Old Irish óen, from Proto-Celtic *oinos (compare Welsh un), from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (compare Latin unus, Old English ān).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (stressed) /ɯ̃ːn/, /ɯ̃ː/, (unstressed) /ən/
  • Audio (Scotland, Isle of Lewis):(file)

Numeral

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aon (+ lenition except of d, s, and t)

  1. one

Usage notes

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  • Lenites the following word if it begins with b, c, f, g, m or p.
  • When standing alone, preceded by a h-:
    Tha aon cheist agam.I have one question.
    Tha a h-aon agam cuideachd.I have one as well.

Derived terms

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See also

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Adjective

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aon

  1. any
  2. same

Noun

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aon m (genitive singular aoin)

  1. (card games) ace

Mutation

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Mutation of aon
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
aon n-aon h-aon t-aon

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

References

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “aon”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “óen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Unami

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Etymology

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From Proto-Algonquian *awanwi (it is fog, it is foggy). Cognate with Munsee awán (it is fog), Ojibwe awan (it is foggy, it is fog), Mohegan-Pequot awan (it is foggy, there is fog).

Verb

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aon

  1. (inanimate, intransitive) to be foggy, it is fog
  2. fog, mist

References

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  • Rementer, Jim with Pearson, Bruce L. (2005) “aon”, in Leneaux, Grant, Whritenour, Raymond, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project

Vilamovian

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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aon f (plural ann)

  1. harvest