aonbheannach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish óenbennach (“one-horned; unicorn”) equivalent to aon- (“one-, uni-”) + beann (“antler”) +‎ -ach.

Pronunciation

• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈeːnˠ.ˈvʲa.nˠəx/
• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈeːnˠ.vʲə.ˈnˠax/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈiːnˠ.ˈvʲa.nˠah/

Noun

aonbheannach m (genitive singular aonbheannaigh, nominative plural aonbheannaigh)

1. (literary) unicorn

Declension

Declension of aonbheannach (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative aonbheannach aonbheannaigh vocative a aonbheannaigh a aonbheannacha genitive aonbheannaigh aonbheannach dative aonbheannach aonbheannaigh forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-aonbheannach na haonbheannaigh genitive an aonbheannaigh na n-aonbheannach dative leis an aonbheannach don aonbheannach leis na haonbheannaigh

Mutation

Mutated forms of aonbheannach

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aonbheannach	n-aonbheannach	haonbheannach	t-aonbheannach

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aonbheannach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “óen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language