aos

See also: AOS

Galician

Alternative forms

• ós

Etymology

From contraction of preposition a (“to, towards”) + masculine plural definite article os (“the”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔs/

Contraction

aos m pl (masculine sg ao, feminine sg á, feminine plural ás)

1. to the, towards the

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Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish áes².

Alternative forms

• taos

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): [eːsˠ]
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): [iːsˠ]

Noun

aos m (genitive singular aosa)

1. people, folk

Declension

Declension of aos

Third declension

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

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

Derived terms

• aosán m (“evil fairy; fairies”)

Etymology 2

Noun

aos m

1. Alternative form of aois (“age”)

Mutation

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

References

• "aos" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 áes (‘people, folk’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /awʃ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aws/

Contraction

aos

1. Contraction of a os (“to the”).

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:ao.