aosán

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish áesán (“fairies; sickness caused by fairies”). By surface analysis, aos (“people, folk”) +‎ -án.

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /eːˈsˠɑːn̪ˠ/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈiːsˠɑːnˠ/, /ˈiːsˠɑːn̪ˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈiːsˠanˠ/, /ˈiːsˠan̪ˠ/

Noun

aosán m (genitive singular aosáin, nominative plural aosáin)

1. evil fairy
2. (collective) fairies

Declension

Declension of aosán (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative aosán aosáin vocative a aosáin a aosána genitive aosáin aosán dative aosán aosáin forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-aosán na haosáin genitive an aosáin na n-aosán dative leis an aosán don aosán leis na haosáin

Mutation

Mutated forms of aosán

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aosán	n-aosán	haosán	t-aosán

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