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

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) 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

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
féas	fhéas	bhféas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “féas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN