gean
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English
Etymology
From Middle French guine (modern French guigne).
Pronunciation
Noun
gean (plural geans)
- (now dialectal) A wild cherry tree, Prunus avium, native to Europe and western Asia or its small, dark fruit.
- 1947 [1939], Ernst Jünger, translated by Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs, New Directions, translation of Auf den Marmorklippen (in German), →LCCN, →OCLC, page 12:
- Thus in the early year the blue pearl clusters of the grape hyacinth bloomed, and in autumn the geans rejoiced us with the red Chinese lantern gleam of their fruit.
- 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate, published 2012, page 45:
- ‘Given the circumstances, Effie,’ he whispered, ‘I could blossom again like a gean-tree.’
Translations
wild cherry — see wild cherry
Further reading
Prunus avium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “gean”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “gean”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Anagrams
Aromanian
Alternative forms
Noun
gean n
Derived terms
Basque
Noun
gean
Esperanto
Adjective
gean
- accusative singular of gea
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish gen (“favour, fondness, liking”).
Pronunciation
Noun
gean m (genitive singular geana)
Declension
Declension of gean
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Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| gean | ghean | ngean |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gean”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 gen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Entries containing “gean” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “gean” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
Northern Sami
Pronoun
gean
Old English
Etymology
A variant of ġeġn.
Pronunciation
Adverb
ġēan
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
Noun
gean m
Derived terms
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition |
| gean | ghean |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian gān, from Proto-West Germanic *gān.
Pronunciation
Verb
gean
- to go
Usage notes
- Gean is often omitted in colloquial speech. It is considered a default verb, so if a sentence has no verb, gean could most probably be inserted for purposes of English translation. It should be noted also that in earlier English, this could also be done; i.e. "We must away" for "We must go away" or "We must leave"
- Hy wei ― He went away / he has gone away (literally, “he away”)
Conjugation
| Irregular (Suppletive) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | gean | |||
| 3rd singular past | gie, gong, gyng | |||
| past participle | gien, gongen | |||
| infinitive | gean | |||
| long infinitive | gean | |||
| gerund | gean n | |||
| auxiliary | wêze | |||
| indicative | present tense | past tense | ||
| 1st singular | gean | gie, gong, gyng | ||
| 2nd singular | giest | giest, gongst, gyngst | ||
| 3rd singular | giet | gie, gong, gyng | ||
| plural | geane | gongen, gienen, gyngen | ||
| imperative | gean | |||
| participles | geanend, geanende | gien, gongen | ||
- (variant past tenses of gean):
- 1st and 3rd person singular: gong, gyng
- 2nd person singular: gongst, gyngst
- plural: gongen, gyngen
- past participle: gongen.
Further reading
- “gean”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011