aisling

From Irish aisling.

• IPA^(key): /ˈæʃlɪŋ/

aisling (plural aislings)

1. A kind of Irish poem, developed during the late 17th and 18th centuries, in which Ireland appears to the poet in a vision in the form of a woman, lamenting the state of the Irish people and predicting the revival of their fortunes.

• Gilanis, ailings, nilgais, sailing

From Old Irish aislinge f (“vision, dream”).

• (Cork, Waterford) IPA^(key): /ˈaʃlʲɪɲ/
• (Kerry) IPA^(key): /ˈaʃlʲənʲ/
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈaʃl̠ʲən̠ʲ/

aisling f (genitive singular aislinge, nominative plural aislingí)

1. dream, vision
2. (poetry) vision poem
3. verbal noun of aisling

• (dream): brionglóid
• (vision): fís

• aisling bhréige f (“false apparition; empty dream”)
• aislingeach (“visionary; dreamy”, adjective)
• aislingeach m (“visionary; day-dreamer”)
• aislingeacht f (“(act of) day-dreaming; dreaminess”)

aisling (present analytic aislingeann, future analytic aislingfidh, verbal noun aisling, past participle aislingthe)

1. (rare, literary) dream of, see in a dream; have a vision of, see in a vision

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

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aislinge”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aislingid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “aisling”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 19
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aisling”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “aisling”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “aisling”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
• “aisling”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy

From Old Irish aislinge f (“vision, dream”).

• (North Uist) IPA^(key): /ˈaʃʎɪkʲ/^[1]
• (Barra) IPA^(key): [ˈæʃlɪkʲ]^[2]

aisling f (genitive singular aislinge, plural aislingean)

1. dream, vision
2. verbal noun of aisling

• bruadar

• • aisling-chadail (“night's dream”)
  • aisling-chonnain (“erotic dream”)

   

aisling (past aisling, future aislingidh, verbal noun aisling, past participle aislingte)

1. (uncommon as a verb) dream

• (more common) bruadair
• bruadaraich