aos

• ós

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

• IPA^(key): /ɔs/

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

1. to the, towards the

From Old Irish áes².

• taos

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

aos m (genitive singular aosa)

1. people, folk

• aosán m (“evil fairy; fairies”)
• aos sí m (“fairy folk”)

aos m

1. Alternative form of aois (“age”)

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

• Hyphenation: aos

aos m pl

1. Contraction of a os: masculine plural of ao

For quotations using this term, see Citations:ao.