uamhan

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ómun m (“fear, the state of being afraid”), from Proto-Celtic *oβnus (“fear”) (compare Breton aon, Cornish own, Welsh ofn).

Noun

uamhan m (genitive singular uamhain, nominative plural uamhna)

  1. fear; dread; (religion) awe
  2. object of dread, terror

Declension

Declension of uamhan (irregular)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative uamhan uamhna
vocative a uamhain a uamhna
genitive uamhain uamhan
dative uamhan uamhna
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an t-uamhan na huamhna
genitive an uamhain na n-uamhan
dative leis an uamhan
don uamhan 		leis na huamhna

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of uamhan
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
uamhan n-uamhan huamhan t-uamhan

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

References

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