úan - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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See also: uan

• huan, húan, uan

• IPA^(key): /uːa̯n/

From Proto-Celtic *ognos (compare Welsh oen), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʷnós (“lamb”).

úan m

1. lamb

• Irish: uan
• Manx: eayn
• Scottish Gaelic: uan

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 úan “lamb””, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Proto-Indo-European *pow-ino-, from *pu- (“to swell, blow”).

úan ?

1. foam
2. froth

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 úan “foam, froth””, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

See the verb oidid

úan f

1. act of lending, loan

• ón (early?)

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 úan “lending, loan””, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Univerbation of úa (“from”) +‎ sinn (“us”)

úan

1. first-person plural of úa; alternative spelling of úainn

Univerbation of úa (“from”) +‎ in (“the”, dative singular)

úan

1. from/of/by the (dative singular)