oileán

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ailén.

Pronunciation

Noun

oileán m (genitive singular oileáin, nominative plural oileáin)

  1. island
  2. isolated place

Declension

Declension of oileán

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative oileán oileáin
Vocative a oileáin a oileána
Genitive oileáin oileán
Dative oileán oileáin

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an t-oileán na hoileáin
Genitive an oileáin na n-oileán
Dative leis an oileán

don oileán

leis na hoileáin

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Yola: eeeloan, eeloan, eelone, iloan, ilone

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
oileán n-oileán hoileán t-oileán
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 78
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 36

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