aonarán

See also: aonaran

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish óenarán m, a diminutive of óenar m (“a single individual, one alone”). By surface analysis, aonar (“one, lone person”) +‎ -án.

Noun

aonarán m (genitive singular aonaráin, nominative plural aonaráin)

1. single, solitary person
2. hermit, loner, recluse

Declension

Declension of aonarán (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative aonarán aonaráin vocative a aonaráin a aonarána genitive aonaráin aonarán dative aonarán aonaráin forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-aonarán na haonaráin genitive an aonaráin na n-aonarán dative leis an aonarán don aonarán leis na haonaráin

Synonyms

• aonracán

Derived terms

• aonaránach (“alone, solitary”, adjective)
• aonaránacht f (“solitariness”)

Related terms

• aonarach (“single, solitary, lone”, adjective)
• aonaracht f (“singularity, solitude”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of aonarán

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aonarán	n-aonarán	haonarán	t-aonarán

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

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “oenarán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aonarán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “hermit”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
• “loner”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
• “recluse”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025