feon

Esperanto

Noun

feon

1. accusative singular of feo

Irish

Noun

feon m (genitive singular feoin, nominative plural feoin)

1. Alternative form of feothan (“breeze, gust”)

Declension

Declension of feon (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative feon feoin vocative a fheoin a fheona genitive feoin feon dative feon feoin forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an feon na feoin genitive an fheoin na bhfeon dative leis an bhfeon don fheon leis na feoin

Mutation

Mutated forms of feon

radical	lenition	eclipsis
feon	fheon	bhfeon

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

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe͜oːn/

Verb

fēon (contracted)

1. Alternative form of fēoġan

Old French

Alternative forms

• faon, fan, foun, feoun
• fon, foon, fooun, faun, fououn

Etymology

From an earlier *feḍon, from Vulgar Latin *fētōnem. Attested in Philippe de Thaon's Bestiare.

Pronunciation

• (classical, late) IPA^(key): /fəˈun/, /faˈun/, /fuˈun/

Noun

feon oblique singular, m (oblique plural feons, nominative singular feons, nominative plural feon)

1. whelp (young animal)
2. fawn (young deer)

Descendants

• Franc-Comtois: fion
• Lorrain: fawon, fâyon, fowon
• Middle French: faon, fan
  • French: faon
• → Middle English: foun, faon, fawne, ffowen, foine, foowne, fowen, fown
  • English: fawn

References

• feon on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*fētō”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 486