arán

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "aran"

Hungarian

Etymology

ara (“bride”, literary) +‎ -n (case suffix)

Pronunciation

Noun

arán

  1. superessive singular of ara

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish arán,[1] from Proto-Celtic *aragnos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erh₃-ǵnh₁-os (literally “born of the plough”).[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

arán m (genitive singular aráin)

  1. bread
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 99:
      tȧńīn̄ n̥ t-rān šə lm̥ gə rī wōr.
      [Taitníonn an t-arán seo liom go rí-mhór.]
      I like this bread very much.

Declension

Declension of arán (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative arán
vocative a aráin
genitive aráin
dative arán
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an t-arán
genitive an aráin
dative leis an arán
don arán

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of arán
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
arán n-arán harán t-arán

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), “arán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Hamp, Eric P. (1995) “Old Irish arbar n. “corn””, in Études Celtiques, volume 31, →DOI, pages 89–90
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 59
  4. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 99
  5. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 88

Further reading

Old Irish

Etymology

Derived by Eric Hamp from Proto-Celtic *aragnos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erh₃-ǵnh₁-os, from *h₂erh₃- (“to plough”) +‎ *ǵenh₁- (“born”), literally “born of the plough”.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

arán m

  1. (rare) bread
    Synonym: bairgen
  2. loaf of bread

Usage notes

The term is most abundantly found in a memoir about monastery life at Tallaght, and appears generally nowhere else. Elsewhere, bairgen serves as the general term for bread.

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative arán aránL aráinL
Vocative aráin aránL aránuH
Accusative aránN aránL aránuH
Genitive aráinL arán aránN
Dative aránL aránaib aránaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: arán

Mutation

Mutation of arán
radical lenition nasalization
arán
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) 		unchanged n-arán

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

References

  1. ^ Hamp, Eric P. (1995) “Old Irish arbar n. “corn””, in Etudes Celtiques, volume 31, number 1, PERSEE Program, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 89–90

Further reading

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Basque aran (“plum”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈɾan/
  • Rhymes: -an
  • Syllabification: a‧rán

Noun

arán m (plural aranes)

  1. (regional, Biscay, Álava) blackthorn
    Synonyms: arañón, endrino

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