aonú

Irish

Etymology 1

Irish numbers ^(edit)

		10
		1	2  → [a], [b]	10  →
Cardinal: aon     Ordinal: céad, aonú     Ordinal abbreviation: 1ú     Personal: aonar     Attributive: amháin

aon +‎ -ú

Adjective

aonú (abbreviated 1ú)

1. first

   an t-aonú fear déag ― the eleventh man

   an t-aonú lá is fiche ― the twenty-first day

Usage notes

• Used only with compound numbers ending in 1 (11, 21, etc.). The word for ‘first’ is otherwise céad.

Etymology 2

aon +‎ -ú

Noun

aonú m (genitive singular aonaithe)

1. Alternative form of aontú (“assent, agreement”)

Declension

Declension of aonú (irregular, no plural)

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

Mutation

Mutated forms of aonú

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aonú	n-aonú	haonú	t-aonú

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