aduantas

Irish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Compare aduain (“strange, unfamiliar”), aduaine (“strangeness, unfamiliarity”).

Noun

aduantas m (genitive singular aduantais)

1. strange feeling (of fear, loneliness) caused by unfamiliar surroundings

Declension

Declension of aduantas

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative aduantas Vocative a aduantais Genitive aduantais Dative aduantas

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an t-aduantas Genitive an aduantais Dative leis an aduantas don aduantas

Mutation

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aduantas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN