amhrán

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish amrán (“singing, song”),[1] in origin a diminutive form of Old Irish amar n or m (“song”). Cognate with Manx arrane, Scottish Gaelic òran, amhran.

Pronunciation

Noun

amhrán m (genitive singular amhráin, nominative plural amhráin)

  1. song
  2. (prosody) a type of stressed metre

Declension

Declension of amhrán (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative amhrán amhráin
vocative a amhráin a amhrána
genitive amhráin amhrán
dative amhrán amhráin
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an t-amhrán na hamhráin
genitive an amhráin na n-amhrán
dative leis an amhrán
don amhrán 		leis na hamhráin

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of amhrán
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
amhrán n-amhrán hamhrán t-amhrán

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “amrán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 86
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 86
  4. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 288
  5. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 16
  6. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 31, page 16

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