féas

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish fés (“lip; body hair”) (the source of Middle Irish fésóc, modern féasóg).

Noun

féas m (genitive singular féis)

1. (literary) coarse hair, beard

Declension

Declension of féas (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative féas vocative a fhéis genitive féis dative féas forms with the definite article case singular nominative an féas genitive an fhéis dative leis an bhféas don fhéas

Related terms

• féasóg f (“beard”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of féas

radical	lenition	eclipsis
féas	fhéas	bhféas

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) “féas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN