aosán

Irish

Etymology

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

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
Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
aosán n-aosán haosán t-aosán
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  • "aosán" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “áesán” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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