aonad

Irish

Etymology

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Noun

aonad m (genitive singular aonaid, nominative plural aonaid)

1. unit

Declension

Declension of aonad

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative aonad aonaid Vocative a aonaid a aonada Genitive aonaid aonad Dative aonad aonaid

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-aonad na haonaid Genitive an aonaid na n-aonad Dative leis an aonad don aonad leis na haonaid

Derived terms

• aonad Angstrom m (“angstrom, angstrom unit”)
• aonad ceoil m (“music centre”)
• aonad cumhachta m (“power unit”)
• aonad dianchúraim m (“intensive care unit”)
• aonad fístaispeána m, aonad taispeána físe m (“visual display unit, VDU”)
• aonad goir m (“brood, brooder”)
• aonad lárnach próiseála m (“central processing unit”)
• aonad léacsach m (“lexical unit”)
• aonad leictreamaighnéadach m (“electromagnetic unit”)
• aonad loighce agus uimhríochta m (“arithmetic logic unit”)
• aonad maise adamhaí m (“atomic mass unit”)
• aonad mótair m (“motor unit”)
• aonadach (“unitary”, adjective)
• aonadfhad m (“unit length”)
• bonnaonad m (“base unit (of an appliance)”)
• bunaonad m (“base unit”)
• closaonad m (“learning unit”)
• fo-aonad m (“subunit”)

 

Mutation

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

References

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