fearannas

Irish

Alternative forms

• fearantas, fearannacht
• fearanntas, fearanntus, fearantus (superseded)
• ferontas (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle Irish ferannus. By surface analysis, fearann +‎ -as.

Noun

fearannas m (genitive singular fearannais)

1. landed property or the possession of such

Declension

Declension of fearannas (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative fearannas vocative a fhearannais genitive fearannais dative fearannas forms with the definite article case singular nominative an fearannas genitive an fhearannais dative leis an bhfearannas don fhearannas

Mutation

Mutated forms of fearannas

radical	lenition	eclipsis
fearannas	fhearannas	bhfearannas

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

Further reading

• “fearannas”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “feranntas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “fearannas”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 304
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fearannas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN