gríanán

See also: grianan

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• grénán (older form)

Etymology

From grían (“sun”) +‎ -án.

Noun

gríanán f

1. a sunny place, a bower, a place open to the sun.

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative
Vocative
Accusative
Genitive
Dative
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
gríanán	gríanán pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/	ngríanán
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), “gríanán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language