áin
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ain"
Icelandic
[edit]Noun
[edit]áin f
Irish
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Irish áin f (“act of driving (animals etc.)”).
Noun
[edit]áin f (genitive singular áine)
Declension
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Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]áin
- Alternative form of áil (“desire, wish”)
Mutation
[edit]radical | eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
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áin | n-áin | háin | not applicable |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “áin”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN