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aosán

aosán

Irish

Noun

aosán m ‎(genitive singular aosáin, nominative plural aosáin)

evil fairy
(collective) fairies

Declension

Declension of aosán

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	aosán	aosáin
Vocative	a aosáin	a aosána
Genitive	aosáin	aosán
Dative	aosán	aosáin

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an t-aosán	na haosáin
Genitive	an aosáin	na n-aosán
Dative	leis an aosán don aosán	leis na haosáin

Mutation

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

References

"aosán" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
“áesán” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.