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Irish
Pronunciation
Noun
suain m
- genitive singular of suan
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| suain
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shuain
after an, tsuain
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not applicable
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish súan (“slumber, sleep”), from Proto-Celtic *sounos, from Proto-Indo-European *swépnos.
Noun
suain f (genitive singular suaine, plural suainean)
- slumber, sleep, narcosis
Usage notes
- Usually implies a deep sleep.
Synonyms
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References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “suain”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “súan”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language