íarn

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *īsarnom (compare Welsh haearn, Breton houarn), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésh₂r̥.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iːa̯rn/

Noun

íarn n or m (genitive íairn or éirn, nominative plural íairn or éirn)

1. iron

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Irish: iarann
• Manx: yiarn
• Scottish Gaelic: iarann

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
íarn (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-íarn
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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