feidhmeannas

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Compare feidhm f (“function; use, service; work, office, duty; undertaking, task; attempt, effort; achievement, prowess; need”).

Noun

feidhmeannas m (genitive singular feidhmeannais)

  1. function, service
  2. office, capacity
  3. position, employment

Declension

Declension of feidhmeannas (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative feidhmeannas
vocative a fheidhmeannais
genitive feidhmeannais
dative feidhmeannas
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an feidhmeannas
genitive an fheidhmeannais
dative leis an bhfeidhmeannas
don fheidhmeannas
  • feidhmeannach (“functional; capable, efficient; forceful, strong”, adjective)
  • feidhmeannach m (“functionary, official; executor, executive; agent, servant”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of feidhmeannas
radical lenition eclipsis
feidhmeannas fheidhmeannas bhfeidhmeannas

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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