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Breton
Etymology
From Middle Breton un, from Old Breton un, from Proto-Brythonic *ʉn.
Numeral
eun
- one
Irish
Noun
eun m (genitive singular éin, nominative plural éin)
- Obsolete spelling of éan (“bird”).
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| eun
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n-eun
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heun
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t-eun
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish én, from Proto-Celtic *ɸetnos, from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥. Doublet of peann (“pen”). Cognate with English feather, Russian перо́ (peró, “feather”), and dialectal Armenian թեր (tʻer, “leaf, petal”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ian/
Noun
eun m (genitive singular eòin, plural eòin)
- bird
1987 July 1, Joe Neil MacNeil, John Shaw, Tales Until Dawn: The World of a Cape Breton Gaelic Story-Teller, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, →ISBN, page 276:Agus cha bu luaithe a chuir esan an t-eun anns an eunain òrach na thànaig sgriach as an eun a bha oillteil agus dhùisg a h-uile duine a bh' as a' chairteal […]- And no sooner had he put the bird in the golden birdhouse than came a screech from the bird that was horrible and woke up everyone in the quarter
- chicken
Derived terms
Descendants
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
|
| eun |
n-eun |
h-eun |
t-eun
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
|
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “eun”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 én”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language