uamhan

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ómun m (“fear, the state of being afraid”), from Proto-Celtic *oβnus (“fear”) (compare Breton aon, Cornish own, Welsh ofn).

Noun

uamhan m (genitive singular uamhain, nominative plural uamhna)

1. fear; dread; (religion) awe
2. object of dread, terror

Declension

Declension of uamhan (irregular)

bare forms case singular plural nominative uamhan uamhna vocative a uamhain a uamhna genitive uamhain uamhan dative uamhan uamhna forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-uamhan na huamhna genitive an uamhain na n-uamhan dative leis an uamhan don uamhan leis na huamhna

Derived terms

• is uamhan liom (go) (“I fear (that)”)
• uamhan clóis m (“claustrophobia”)
• uamhan sráide m (“agoraphobia”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of uamhan

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
uamhan	n-uamhan	huamhan	t-uamhan

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