féas

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Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish fés (“lip; body hair”) (the source of Middle Irish fésóc, modern féasóg).

Noun

féas m (genitive singular féis)

  1. (literary) coarse hair, beard

Declension

Declension of féas (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative féas
vocative a fhéis
genitive féis
dative féas
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an féas
genitive an fhéis
dative leis an bhféas
don fhéas

Mutation

Mutated forms of féas
radical lenition eclipsis
féas fhéas bhféas

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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