aegan

Manx

Etymology

From Middle Irish ócán, from Old Irish óc (“young”) (compare aeg).

Noun

aegan m (genitive singular aegan, plural aeganyn)

1. youth, young man

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ócán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language