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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish on (“blemish, disfigurement”), a term that is otherwise obsolete.
Prepositional phrase
gan on
- faultless, unblemished
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “on”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 on”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language