firéan

See also: fíréan

Irish

Etymology

From fear (“man”) +‎ éan (“bird”).

Noun

firéan m (genitive singular firéin, nominative plural firéin)

1. (obsolete) male bird, cock

Inflection

Declension of firéan (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative firéan firéin vocative a fhiréin a fhiréana genitive firéin firéan dative firéan firéin forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an firéan na firéin genitive an fhiréin na bhfiréan dative leis an bhfiréan don fhiréan leis na firéin

Mutation

Mutated forms of firéan

radical	lenition	eclipsis
firéan	fhiréan	bhfiréan

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “firéan”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language