sanasán

See also: sanasan

Irish

Etymology

From sanas (“advice, counsel”) +‎ -án. The sense "etymology, derivation" may be influenced by the name of Sanas Cormaic, a folk-etymological glossary dating from circa 900.

Pronunciation

(Munster) IPA^(key): /sˠɑn̪ˠəˈsˠɑːn̪ˠ/
(Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈsˠanˠəsˠɑːnˠ/
(Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈsˠanˠəsˠanˠ/

Noun

sanasán m (genitive singular sanasáin, nominative plural sanasáin)

glossary
Synonym: gluais
(obsolete) etymology, derivation
Synonym: sanasaíocht

Inflection

Declension of sanasán (first declension)

bare forms
	singular	plural
nominative	sanasán	sanasáin
vocative	a sanasáin	a sanasána
genitive	sanasáin	sanasán
dative	sanasán	sanasáin

forms with the definite article
	singular	plural
nominative	an sanasán	na sanasáin
genitive	an sanasáin	na sanasán
dative	leis an sanasán don sanasán	leis na sanasáin

Mutation

Mutated forms of *sanasán*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
sanasán	shanasán after an, tsanasán	not applicable

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

References

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sanasán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language