suan

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See also: Suan, súan, suàn, suān, süän, and suǎn

Finnish

Noun

suan

  1. genitive singular of suka

Anagrams

Gagauz

Noun

suan (definite accusative , plural )

  1. onion

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish súan, from Proto-Celtic *sounos, from Proto-Indo-European *swépnos, from the root *swep- (to sleep).

Pronunciation

Noun

suan m (genitive singular suain)

  1. sleep, slumber

Declension

Declension of suan (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative suan
vocative a shuain
genitive suain
dative suan
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an suan
genitive an tsuain
dative leis an suan
don suan

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of suan
radical lenition eclipsis
suan shuan
after an, tsuan
not applicable

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

Further reading

Mandarin

Romanization

suan

  1. nonstandard spelling of suān
  2. nonstandard spelling of suǎn
  3. nonstandard spelling of suàn

Usage notes

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English swan.

Noun

suan

  1. alternative form of swan

Etymology 2

From Old English swān.

Noun

suan

  1. alternative form of swon

Old English

Noun

suan m

  1. alternative form of swan

Wutunhua

Pronunciation

Noun

suan

  1. Tibetan (including Wutun people)

Derived terms

References

  • Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun, University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN