godeen
Fingallian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English gode (“goad”) + Irish -ín (“diminutive suffix”).
Noun
[edit]godeen
- (Little) staff, pole.
- 1689 James Farewell, The Irish Hudibras, or, Fingallian prince taken from the sixth book of Virgil's Æneids, and adapted to the present times. (Appendix: "Alphabetical Table" of "Fingallian Words, or Irish Phrases"):
- Godeen,
- Staff, Pole.
- 1689 James Farewell, The Irish Hudibras, or, Fingallian prince taken from the sixth book of Virgil's Æneids, and adapted to the present times. (Appendix: "Alphabetical Table" of "Fingallian Words, or Irish Phrases"):