feadhán
Irish
Alternative forms
- feadhan, feagán
Etymology
Uncertain. Dinneen lists it as a specialized sense of feadhain (“band, troop, company of men”), which comes from Old Irish fedan (“act of carrying”). But it could also be from feadh (“length, extent”) + -án or fiodh (“wood”) + -án since wheel rims were originally made of wood.
Pronunciation
- (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈfʲɨ̞ɡanˠ/
Noun
feadhán m (genitive singular feadháin, nominative plural feadháin)
Declension
Declension of feadhán
First declension
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Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| feadhán | fheadhán | bhfeadhán |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- “feadhán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “feaḋan”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “feagan”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
- Entries containing “felloe” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “feadhán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 42
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