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oileán

oileán

Irish

Noun

oileán m ‎(genitive singular oileáin, nominative plural oileáin)

island
isolated place

Declension

Declension of oileán

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	oileán	oileáin
Vocative	a oileáin	a oileána
Genitive	oileáin	oileán
Dative	oileán	oileáin

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an t-oileán	na hoileáin
Genitive	an oileáin	na n-oileán
Dative	leis an oileán don oileán	leis na hoileáin

Synonyms

(island): inis

Derived terms

Oileáin Fhilipíneacha ‎(“Philippines”)
oileán mara ‎(“seagirt island”)
Oileán Phrionsa Éadbhard ‎(“Prince Edward Island”)
oileán tráchta ‎(“traffic island”)
oileánach ‎(“islander; insular”)
oileánra ‎(“archipelago”)

Mutation

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