oileán

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ailén.

Pronunciation

(Munster) IPA^(key): /ɪˈlʲɑːnˠ/
(Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈɪlʲɑːnˠ/
(Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈɛlʲanˠ/

Noun

oileán m (genitive singular oileáin, nominative plural oileáin)

island
isolated place

Declension

Declension of oileán

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	oileán	oileáin
Vocative	a oileáin	a oileána
Genitive	oileáin	oileán
Dative	oileán	oileáin

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an t-oileán	na hoileáin
Genitive	an oileáin	na n-oileán
Dative	leis an oileán don oileán	leis na hoileáin

Synonyms

(island): inis

Derived terms

Oileáin Fhilipíneacha (“Philippines”)
oileán mara (“seagirt island”)
Oileán Phrionsa Éadbhard (“Prince Edward Island”)
oileán sráide (“traffic island”)
oileán tráchta (“traffic island”)
Oileán Úr (“New World”)
oileánach (“islander; insular”)
oileánra (“archipelago”)

Descendants

→ Yola: eeeloan, eeloan, eelone, iloan

Mutation

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

Further reading

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “oileán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
“island”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2023
Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 36

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