gan on

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish on (“blemish, disfigurement”), a term that is otherwise obsolete.

Prepositional phrase

gan on

1. faultless, unblemished

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “on”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 on”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language