éan

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "ean"

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish én,[1] from Proto-Celtic *ɸetnos. Compare Welsh edn, English feather.

Pronunciation

Noun

éan m (genitive singular éin, nominative plural éin)

  1. bird
    Luigh leis an uan, agus éirigh leis an éan.
    Lie with the lamb, and rise with the bird.
  2. young (of bird)
  3. (by extension) young (of other animals)

Declension

Declension of éan

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative éan éin
Vocative a éin a éana
Genitive éin éan
Dative éan éin

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an t-éan na héin
Genitive an éin na n-éan
Dative leis an éan

don éan

leis na héin

Derived terms

Mutation

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 én”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 16
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 94
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 60

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