aigeann

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish océn, borrowed from Latin Ōceanus (compare Welsh eigion), from Ancient Greek Ὠκεανός (Ōkeanós).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈakʲən̪ˠ/[1]

Noun

aigeann m (genitive singular aigeinn, plural aigeannan)

  1. abyss
  2. sea bed
  3. (dated) ocean, sea

Mutation

Mutation of aigeann
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
aigeann n-aigeann h-aigeann t-aigeann

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

References

  1. ^ Jenny Ladefoged, Peter Ladefoged, Alice Turk, Kevin Hind (5 February 1996) “Word List for Scottish Gaelic (Great Bernera, Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland)”, in The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive‎[1], Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics

Further reading

  • MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “aigeann”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎[2], Stirling, →ISBN
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