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Aisling

Aisling

See also: aisling

Irish

Proper noun

Aisling

  1. A female given name

Descendants

aisling

aisling

See also: Aisling

English

Noun

aisling (plural aislings)

  1. A kind of Irish poem, developed during the late 17th and 18th centuries, in which Ireland appears to the poet in a vision in the form of a woman, lamenting the state of the Irish people and predicting the revival of their fortunes.

Irish

Pronunciation

  • (West Muskerry, Ring) IPA(key): /ˈaʃlʲɪɲ/
  • (West Kerry) IPA(key): /ˈaʃlʲənʲ/
  • (Connacht, Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈaʃl̠ʲən̠ʲ/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish aislinge f (vision, dream).

Noun

aisling f (genitive singular aislinge, nominative plural aislingí)

  1. dream, vision
  2. (poetry) vision poem
  3. verbal noun of aisling
Declension
Synonyms
Derived terms
  • aisling bhréige f (false apparition; empty dream)
  • aislingeach (visionary; dreamy, adj)
  • aislingeach m (visionary; day-dreamer)
  • aislingeacht f ((act of) day-dreaming; dreaminess)

Etymology 2

From Old Irish aislingid (dreams, verb), from aislinge f (vision, dream).

Verb

aisling (present analytic aislingeann, future analytic aislingfidh, verbal noun aisling, past participle aislingthe)

  1. (transitive, literary) dream of, see in a dream; have a vision of, see in a vision
Conjugation

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
aisling n-aisling haisling t-aisling
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • "aisling" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • aislinge” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • aislingid” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.