oigheann

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish aigen.[4] Cognate with Scottish Gaelic àmhainn.

Pronunciation

Noun

oigheann m (genitive singular oighinn, nominative plural oighinn)

  1. oven

Declension

Declension of oigheann (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative oigheann oighinn
vocative a oighinn a oigheanna
genitive oighinn oigheann
dative oigheann oighinn
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an t-oigheann na hoighinn
genitive an oighinn na n-oigheann
dative leis an oigheann
don oigheann
leis na hoighinn

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of oigheann
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
oigheann n-oigheann hoigheann t-oigheann

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

References

  1. ^ oigheann”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “aḋann”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 5
  3. ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “oiḋeann”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 526
  4. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 aigen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  5. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 4

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