feoras

See also: Feoras

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish feorus.

Noun

feoras m (genitive singular feorais, nominative plural feorais)

1. (botany) spindle

Declension

Declension of feoras (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative feoras feorais vocative a fheorais a fheorasa genitive feorais feoras dative feoras feorais forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an feoras na feorais genitive an fheorais na bhfeoras dative leis an bhfeoras don fheoras leis na feorais

Derived terms

• caor feorais (“spindle berry”)
• crann feorais (“spindle tree”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of feoras

radical	lenition	eclipsis
feoras	fheoras	bhfeoras

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “feoras”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “feorus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language