suain

See also: Suain

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sˠuənʲ]

Noun

suain m

1. genitive singular of suan

Mutation

Mutated forms of suain

radical	lenition	eclipsis
suain	shuain after an, tsuain	not applicable

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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish súan (“slumber, sleep”), from Proto-Celtic *sounos, from Proto-Indo-European *swépnos.

Noun

suain f (genitive singular suaine, plural suainean)

1. slumber, sleep, narcosis

Usage notes

• Usually implies a deep sleep.

Synonyms

• cadal

Derived terms

• suain-lann (“dormitory”)
• suaineach (“sleepy”, adjective)
• suaineachan (“sofa”)
• suainealach (“hypnotic”, adjective)
• suainealaiche (“hypnotist”)
• suainealas (“hypnotism”)

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “suain”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “súan”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language