súan

See also: suan, Suan, suàn, suān, süän, and suǎn

Galician

Verb

súan

  1. third-person plural present indicative of suar

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *sounos, from Proto-Indo-European *swépnos, which is derived from the root *swep- (“to sleep”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /suːa̯n/

Noun

súan m

  1. slumber, sleep

Inflection
Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative súan — —
Vocative súain — —
Accusative súanN — —
Genitive súainL — —
Dative súanL — —
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants
  • Irish: suan
  • Scottish Gaelic: suain

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
súan ṡúan unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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