aisling

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English

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Etymology

From Irish aisling.

Pronunciation

Noun

aisling (plural aislings)

  1. A kind of Irish poem, developed during the late 17th and 18th centuries, in which Ireland appears to the poet in a vision in the form of a woman, lamenting the state of the Irish people and predicting the revival of their fortunes.

Anagrams

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish aislinge f (vision, dream).

Pronunciation

Noun

aisling f (genitive singular aislinge, nominative plural aislingí)

  1. dream, vision
  2. (poetry) vision poem
  3. verbal noun of aisling

Declension

Declension of aisling (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative aisling aislingí
vocative a aisling a aislingí
genitive aislinge aislingí
dative aisling aislingí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an aisling na haislingí
genitive na haislinge na n-aislingí
dative leis an aisling
don aisling
leis na haislingí

Synonyms

Derived terms

Verb

aisling (present analytic aislingeann, future analytic aislingfidh, verbal noun aisling, past participle aislingthe)

  1. (rare, literary) dream of, see in a dream; have a vision of, see in a vision

Conjugation

Mutation

Mutated forms of aisling
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
aisling n-aisling haisling not applicable

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

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish aislinge f (vision, dream).

Pronunciation

Noun

aisling f (genitive singular aislinge, plural aislingean)

  1. dream, vision
  2. verbal noun of aisling

Synonyms

Derived terms

Verb

aisling (past aisling, future aislingidh, verbal noun aisling, past participle aislingte)

  1. (uncommon as a verb) dream

Synonyms

References

  1. ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
  2. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap