-án

-a (possessive suffix, referring to the day of a month) +‎ -n (“on”, superessive suffix)

• IPA^(key): [aːn]
• Rhymes: -aːn

-án

1. on the specified day of the month (attached to numbers with a hyphen, omitting the dot that indicates ordinal numbers)

   február 16-án ― on February 16th (literally, “on 16th of February”)

   augusztus másodikán ― on August the second

• Variants:

  -án — in accordance with the vowel harmony of the numerals, with 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 8th (or these numbers plus 10 or 20), as well as 20th and 30th

  -én — in accordance with the vowel harmony of the numerals, with 4th, 5th, 7th, 9th (or these numbers plus 10 or 20), as well as 11th, 21st, and 31st

  -jén — only after 1st of a month: elsején or 1-jén (the 2015 edition of the spelling regulations also allows -én for the latter^[1])

• Category:Hungarian ordinal numbers, also used for days of months when supplemented with a possessive suffix
• {{U:hu:num-odik}}, ordinal-number suffixes (“-th”)
• -a/-ja/-e/-je, possessive suffixes (“of”), see also its other suffixed forms at Declension

• -eán (slender variant)

From Middle Irish -án, from Old Irish -án, from Primitive Irish -ᚐᚌᚅᚔ (-agni).

-án m

1. A suffix used to derive instruments, diminutives, and other nouns from primary nouns and adjectives.

   Synonym: -achán

   ‎bocht (“poor”) + ‎-án → ‎bochtán (“pauper”)

This suffix is productive in Modern Irish. It forms masculine nouns of the first declension. It was originally a diminutive, but in Modern Irish only a few words with this suffix can be considered diminutives.

-án m

1. (chemistry) -ane

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “-án”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Old Irish -án.

-án m (genitive -áin, plural -áin)

1. diminutive suffix

• Irish: -án

• -én

From Primitive Irish -ᚐᚌᚅᚔ (-agni, genitive).

-án m

1. diminutive suffix

After a palatalised consonant, the suffix becomes -én.

• -acán

• Middle Irish: -án
  • Irish: -án
• Manx: -ane
• Scottish Gaelic: -an