feadhán
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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 But it could also be from feadh (“length, extent”) + -án or fiodh (“wood”) + -án since wheel rims were originally made of wood.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
[edit]Noun
[edit]feadhán m (genitive singular feadháin, nominative plural feadháin)
Declension
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Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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feadhán | fheadhán | bhfeadhán |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- “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
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “felloe”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- 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