deamhan

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish demon, borrowed from Latin daemon, from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “god, goddess, divine power”).

Pronunciation
  • (Munster) IPA(key): /dʲəun̪ˠ/
  • (Connacht) IPA(key): /dʲəunˠ/, /dʲəun̪ˠ/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /dʲoːnˠ/, /dʲoːn̪ˠ/[1]

Noun

deamhan m (genitive singular deamhain, nominative plural deamhain)

  1. demon
    Ó thigh (an) deamhain go tigh (an) diabhail.
    Out of the frying-pan into the fire.
    (literally, “From the demon's house to the devil's house.”)

Declension
Declension of deamhan

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative deamhan deamhain
Vocative a dheamhain a dheamhana
Genitive deamhain deamhan
Dative deamhan deamhain

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an deamhan na deamhain
Genitive an deamhain na ndeamhan
Dative leis an deamhan

don deamhan

 leis na deamhain

Derived terms
  • deamhan coimhdeachta (“familiar spirit; evil genius”)
  • deamhandíbirt (“exorcism”)
  • deamhan fola (“vampire”)
  • deamhanta (“demoniac(al); fiendish”, adjective)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
deamhan dheamhan ndeamhan
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 19

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish demon, borrowed from Latin daemon, from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “god, goddess, divine power”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈtʲãũ.an/

Noun

deamhan m (genitive singular deamhain, plural deamhanan)

  1. demon, fiend

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
deamhandheamhan
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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