deamhan

Irish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [dʲəunʲ]

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

Derived terms

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.
  • "deamhan" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “demon” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

deamhan m (genitive singular deamhain, plural deamhanan)

  1. demon, fiend
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