aosán

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
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with 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.