Irish

Proper noun

Aisling

1. A female given name

Descendants

• English: Ashlyn

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

• (dream): brionglóid
• (vision): fís

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

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.