uamhan

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ómun m (“fear, the state of being afraid”), from Proto-Celtic *oβnus (“fear”) (compare Breton aon, Cornish own, Welsh ofn).

Noun

uamhan m (genitive singular uamhain, nominative plural uamhna)

1. fear; dread; (religion) awe
2. object of dread, terror

Declension

Declension of uamhan

Irregular

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative uamhan uamhna Vocative a uamhain a uamhna Genitive uamhain uamhan Dative uamhan uamhna

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-uamhan na huamhna Genitive an uamhain na n-uamhan Dative leis an uamhan don uamhan leis na huamhna

Derived terms

• is uamhan liom (go) (“I fear (that)”)
• uamhan clóis m (“claustrophobia”)
• uamhan sráide m (“agoraphobia”)

Mutation

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “uamhan”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “omun, ómun”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language